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A specification of a normal distribution over the type a.

normal m s is a random variable with distribution Normal m s.

normalT m s is a random process with distribution Normal m s.

stdNormal is a normal variable with distribution StdNormal.

stdNormalT is a normal process with distribution StdNormal.

A random variable sampling from the standard normal distribution over the Double type.

A random variable sampling from the standard normal distribution over the Float type.

A random variable sampling from the standard normal distribution over any RealFloat type (subject to the rest of the constraints - it builds and uses a Ziggurat internally, which requires the Erf class).

Because it computes a Ziggurat, it is very expensive to use for just one evaluation, or even for multiple evaluations if not used and reused monomorphically (to enable the ziggurat table to be let-floated out). If you don't know whether your use case fits this description then you're probably better off using a different algorithm, such as boxMullerNormalPair or knuthPolarNormalPair. And of course if you don't need the full generality of this definition then you're much better off using doubleStdNormal or floatStdNormal.

As far as I know, this should be safe to use in any monomorphic Distribution Normal instance declaration.

Draw from the tail of a normal distribution (the region beyond the provided value)

A random variable that produces a pair of independent normally-distributed values.

A random variable that produces a pair of independent normally-distributed values, computed using the Box-Muller method. This algorithm is slightly slower than Knuth's method but using a constant amount of entropy (Knuth's method is a rejection method). It is also slightly more general (Knuth's method require an Ord instance).

A random variable that produces a pair of independent normally-distributed values, computed using Knuth's polar method. Slightly faster than boxMullerNormalPair when it accepts on the first try, but does not always do so.