On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 5:03 PM, Pavel Ryzhov <[email protected]>wrote:

> No, right now.
>
> But i'll definitely make sample generation as i'm writing small Monte Carlo
> engine.
> My current plan is:
> 1. Levy distribution as the first step for contribution.
> 2. Stable distribution and generic distributions by characteristic
> function. I've already started working on it.
> 3. Generators for 1 and 2.
> 4. Generator for Ito process. I'm not sure about Stratanovich processes as
> they are rarely used in finance.
>

Have a look at o.a.c.m.distribution if you have not already done so.  If you
just provide an implementation of the distribution, a default
inversion-based sampler will be inherited from the base class.  If you want
to improve the sampling, you can (eventually) override the sample() method.

Phil


>
> Regards,
> Pavel
>
> On Dec 21, 2010, at 22:27 PM, Ted Dunning wrote:
>
> > Sounds interesting to have to me.
> >
> > Do you generate samples?
> >
> > On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 12:38 PM, Pavel Ryzhov <[email protected]
> >wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I've implemented Levy distribution on top of commons-math. The
> >> implementation is pretty straightforward by
> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lévy_distribution<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9vy_distribution>
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9vy_distribution>So it was not a big
> deal. The distribution is of interest to the financial
> >> modeling, so it might worth to include it into the library.
> >>
> >> So, do we need it in commons-math?
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Pavel
> >>
> >>
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