Random distribution utilities

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I find myself in need of a tool for producing various kinds of random 
distributions such as Poisson and Gaussian etc. I'm sure it should be possible 
to produce a clean API for this sort of thing.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by e...@google.com on 7 Dec 2012 at 4:01

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What do you need it *for*, exactly?  I think I actually experimented with some 
of these things for Guava, once upon a time.

Original comment by lowas...@google.com on 7 Dec 2012 at 9:11

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Theres no standard Poisson distribution or process classes in guava, which are 
incredibly useful when working with load testing which is what I wish to use it 
for. It also probably has a bunch of other uses I can't think of right this 
second.

Original comment by e...@google.com on 7 Dec 2012 at 9:20

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Ah.

...Huh.  That's a use case I hadn't thought of that I really, really like.

Original comment by lowas...@google.com on 7 Dec 2012 at 9:22

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I believe existing libraries probably have this covered.

http://commons.apache.org/math/apidocs/org/apache/commons/math3/distribution/Abs
tractRealDistribution.html

http://jsci.sourceforge.net/api/JSci/maths/statistics/ProbabilityDistribution.ht
ml

I'll close this but if you have info supporting why Guava could and should do 
better than those, reopen.

Original comment by kevinb@google.com on 7 Dec 2012 at 10:06

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This issue has been migrated to GitHub.

It can be found at https://github.com/google/guava/issues/<id>

Original comment by cgdecker@google.com on 1 Nov 2014 at 4:13

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Original comment by cgdecker@google.com on 3 Nov 2014 at 9:08

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