random-distributions/geometric.ss
#lang scheme/base
;;; PLT Scheme Science Collection
;;; random-distributions.geometric.ss
;;; Copyright (c) 2004-2008 M. Douglas Williams
;;;
;;; This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
;;; modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
;;; License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
;;; version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
;;;
;;; This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
;;; but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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;;; Lesser General Public License for more details.
;;;
;;; You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
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;;;
;;; -------------------------------------------------------------------
;;;
;;; This modules implements geometric distributions.  It is based on
;;; the Random Number Distributions in the GNU Scientific Library.
;;;
;;; Version  Date      Description
;;; 1.0.0    09/28/04  Marked as ready for Release 1.0.  Added
;;;                    contracts for functions.  (Doug Williams)
;;; 2.0.0    11/19/07  Added unchecked versions of functions and
;;;                    getting ready for PLT Scheme 4.0 (Doug Williams)
;;; 3.0.0    06/09/08  Changes required for V4.0.  (Doug Williams)

(require (lib "contract.ss"))

(provide
 (rename-out (random-geometric unchecked-random-geometric)
             (geometric-pdf unchecked-geometric-pdf)))

(provide/contract
 (random-geometric
  (case-> (-> random-source? (real-in 0.0 1.0) integer?)
          (-> (real-in 0.0 1.0) integer?)))
 (geometric-pdf
  (-> integer? (real-in 0.0 1.0) (>=/c 0.0))))

(require "../random-source.ss")

;;; random-geometric: random-source x real -> integer
;;; random-geometric: real -> integer
;;; This functions returns a random variate from a geometric
;;; distribution with probability p.
(define random-geometric
  (case-lambda
    ((r p)
     (let ((u (unchecked-random-uniform r)))
       (if (= p 1.0)
           1
           (+ (inexact->exact (truncate (/ (log u)
                                           (log (- 1.0 p)))))
              1))))
    ((p)
     (random-geometric (current-random-source) p))))

;;; geometric-pdf: integer x real -> real
;;; This function computes the probability density p(x) at x for a
;;; geometric distribution with probability p.
(define (geometric-pdf k p)
  (cond ((= k 0)
         0.0)
        ((= k 1)
         p)
        (else
         (* p (expt (- 1.0 p) (- k 1.0))))))