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/* randist/lognormal.c
 * 
 * Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2007 James Theiler, Brian Gough
 * 
 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 * the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at
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 * 
 * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
 * WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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 * Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
 */

#include <config.h>
#include <math.h>
#include <gsl/gsl_math.h>
#include <gsl/gsl_rng.h>
#include <gsl/gsl_randist.h>

/* The lognormal distribution has the form 

   p(x) dx = 1/(x * sqrt(2 pi sigma^2)) exp(-(ln(x) - zeta)^2/2 sigma^2) dx

   for x > 0. Lognormal random numbers are the exponentials of
   gaussian random numbers */

double
gsl_ran_lognormal (const gsl_rng * r, const double zeta, const double sigma)
{
  double u, v, r2, normal, z;

  do
    {
      /* choose x,y in uniform square (-1,-1) to (+1,+1) */

      u = -1 + 2 * gsl_rng_uniform (r);
      v = -1 + 2 * gsl_rng_uniform (r);

      /* see if it is in the unit circle */
      r2 = u * u + v * v;
    }
  while (r2 > 1.0 || r2 == 0);

  normal = u * sqrt (-2.0 * log (r2) / r2);

  z =  exp (sigma * normal + zeta);

  return z;
}

double
gsl_ran_lognormal_pdf (const double x, const double zeta, const double sigma)
{
  if (x <= 0)
    {
      return 0 ;
    }
  else
    {
      double u = (log (x) - zeta)/sigma;
      double p = 1 / (x * fabs(sigma) * sqrt (2 * M_PI)) * exp (-(u * u) /2);
      return p;
    }
}