pub struct LogNormal<F>where
    F: Float,
    StandardNormal: Distribution<F>,
{ /* private fields */ }
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The log-normal distribution ln N(mean, std_dev**2).

If X is log-normal distributed, then ln(X) is N(mean, std_dev**2) distributed.

Example

use rand_distr::{LogNormal, Distribution};

// mean 2, standard deviation 3
let log_normal = LogNormal::new(2.0, 3.0).unwrap();
let v = log_normal.sample(&mut rand::thread_rng());
println!("{} is from an ln N(2, 9) distribution", v)

Implementations

Construct, from (log-space) mean and standard deviation

Parameters are the “standard” log-space measures (these are the mean and standard deviation of the logarithm of samples):

  • mu (μ, unrestricted) is the mean of the underlying distribution
  • sigma (σ, must be finite) is the standard deviation of the underlying Normal distribution

Construct, from (linear-space) mean and coefficient of variation

Parameters are linear-space measures:

  • mean (μ > 0) is the (real) mean of the distribution
  • coefficient of variation (cv = σ / μ, requiring cv ≥ 0) is a standardized measure of dispersion

As a special exception, μ = 0, cv = 0 is allowed (samples are -inf).

Sample from a z-score

This may be useful for generating correlated samples x1 and x2 from two different distributions, as follows.

let mut rng = thread_rng();
let z = StandardNormal.sample(&mut rng);
let x1 = LogNormal::from_mean_cv(3.0, 1.0).unwrap().from_zscore(z);
let x2 = LogNormal::from_mean_cv(2.0, 4.0).unwrap().from_zscore(z);

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