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package org.uncommons.maths.random;
import org.testng.annotations.Test;
import org.uncommons.maths.Maths;
import org.uncommons.maths.number.NumberGenerator;
import org.uncommons.maths.statistics.DataSet;
/**
* Unit test for the uniform floating point number generator.
* @author Daniel Dyer
*/
public class ContinuousUniformGeneratorTest
{
/**
* Check that the observed mean and standard deviation are consistent
* with the specified distribution parameters.
*/
@Test(groups = "non-deterministic")
public void testDistribution()
{
final double min = 150;
final double max = 500;
final double range = max - min;
final double expectedMean = (range / 2) + min;
// Expected standard deviation for a uniformly distributed population of values in the range 0..n
// approaches n/sqrt(12).
final double standardDeviation = range / Math.sqrt(12);
NumberGenerator<Double> generator = new ContinuousUniformGenerator(min,
max,
new MersenneTwisterRNG());
final int iterations = 10000;
DataSet data = new DataSet(iterations);
for (int i = 0; i < iterations; i++)
{
double value = generator.nextValue();
assert value >= min && value <= max : "Value out-out-of-range: " + value;
data.addValue(value);
}
assert Maths.approxEquals(data.getArithmeticMean(), expectedMean, 0.02)
: "Observed mean outside acceptable range: " + data.getArithmeticMean();
assert Maths.approxEquals(data.getSampleStandardDeviation(), standardDeviation, 0.02)
: "Observed standard deviation outside acceptable range: " + data.getSampleStandardDeviation();
// Expected median is the same as expected mean.
assert Maths.approxEquals(data.getMedian(), expectedMean, 0.02)
: "Observed mean outside acceptable range: " + data.getMedian();
}
}