Computer Science – Mathematical Software
Scientific paper
2009-02-18
Computer Science
Mathematical Software
17 pages, 7 figures, submitted to a peer-reviewed journal
Scientific paper
The speed of many one-line transformation methods for the production of, for example, Levy alpha-stable random numbers, which generalize Gaussian ones, and Mittag-Leffler random numbers, which generalize exponential ones, is very high and satisfactory for most purposes. However, for the class of decreasing probability densities fast rejection implementations like the Ziggurat by Marsaglia and Tsang promise a significant speed-up if it is possible to complement them with a method that samples the tails of the infinite support. This requires the fast generation of random numbers greater or smaller than a certain value. We present a method to achieve this, and also to generate random numbers within any arbitrary interval. We demonstrate the method showing the properties of the transform maps of the above mentioned distributions as examples of stable and geometric stable random numbers used for the stochastic solution of the space-time fractional diffusion equation.
Fulger Daniel
Germano Guido
Scalas Enrico
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