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8 {\Large\bf ProbDist} \\ \ \\
9 {\large\bf A Software Library of Probability Distributions\\[6pt]
10    and Goodness-of-Fit Statistics in {ANSI C}}\\
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12 {\bf Pierre L'Ecuyer and Richard Simard} \\ \ \\
13%           has participated to the development of ProbDist.}}
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15D\'epartement d'Informatique et de Recherche Op\'erationnelle \\
16Universit\'e de Montr\'eal \\
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20This document describes a set of basic software utilities,
21implemented in ANSI C, developed in our simulation laboratory.
22It is part of a larger set of tools used for stochastic simulation
23and for testing random number generators.
24It provides procedures to compute densities, mass functions,
25distribution functions and their inverses, and reliability functions,
26for various continuous and discrete probability laws.
27It also offers a mechanism for collecting observational data and
28computing elementary statistics on it, and tools for performing and
29reporting different types of univariate goodness-of-fit tests.
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