mwc-probability: Sampling function-based probability distributions.

A simple probability distribution type, where distributions are characterized by sampling functions.

This implementation is a thin layer over mwc-random, which handles RNG state-passing automatically by using a PrimMonad like IO or ST s under the hood.

Examples

Transform a distribution's support while leaving its density structure invariant:

-- uniform over [0, 1] to uniform over [1, 2]
fmap succ uniform

Sequence distributions together using bind:

-- a beta-binomial compound distribution
beta 1 10 >>= binomial 10

Use do-notation to build complex joint distributions from composable, local conditionals:

hierarchicalModel = do
  [c, d, e, f] <- replicateM 4 $ uniformR (1, 10)
  a <- gamma c d
  b <- gamma e f
  p <- beta a b
  n <- uniformR (5, 10)
  binomial n p

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- Random
  - MWC
    - System.Random.MWC.Probability

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Dependencies	base (>=4.8 && <6), mwc-random (>0.13 && <0.15), primitive (>=0.6 && <1.0), transformers (>=0.5 && <1.0) [details]
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Category	Math
Home page	http://github.com/jtobin/mwc-probability
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mwc-probability

Sampling function-based probability distributions.

A simple probability distribution type, where distributions are characterized by sampling functions.

This implementation is a thin layer over mwc-random, which handles RNG state-passing automatically by using a PrimMonad like IO or ST s under the hood.

Examples

Transform a distribution's support while leaving its density structure invariant:
```
-- uniform over [0, 1] transformed to uniform over [1, 2]
succ <$> uniform
```

Sequence distributions together using bind:

-- a beta-binomial composite distribution
beta 1 10 >>= binomial 10

Use do-notation to build complex joint distributions from composable, local conditionals:

hierarchicalModel = do
  [c, d, e, f] <- replicateM 4 (uniformR (1, 10))
  a <- gamma c d
  b <- gamma e f
  p <- beta a b
  n <- uniformR (5, 10)
  binomial n p

Check out the haddock-generated docs on Hackage for other examples.

Etc.

PRs and issues welcome.