[PD] anyone using array quantile?

[peiman khosravi]

Thanks. In this case I think something isn't right with [array random].
Using the same array, I get very different patterns with the two methods
(see attached patch). The difference is obvious with a gaussian
distribution, which looks skewed when generated with [array random].

Best,
Peiman







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On 22 November 2013 15:48, Miller Puckette <msp at ucsd.edu> wrote:

> There could be something wrong.  But array_random_bang() (in x_array.c)
> cooks up a pseudorandom number from 0 to 1 (I believe) and then calls
> array_quantile_float() with it.  That's exactly what connecting random()
> to array_quantile in a patch should be doing.
>
> cheers
> Miller
>
> On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 09:38:59AM +0000, peiman khosravi wrote:
> > Thank you very much. That does the trick.
> >
> > Though, [array random] doesn't seem to be working as I expected. Am I
> right
> > to think that it should produce the same result as [array quantile] fed
> > with uniformly distributed random values? If so I'm getting very
> different
> > results here.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Peiman
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> > On 22 November 2013 04:16, Miller Puckette <msp at ucsd.edu> wrote:
> >
> > > I think the patch is occasionally (once every 512 times on average)
> sending
> > > zero to "array quantile" which then outputs the index of the first
> nonzero
> > > number in the table -- in this case a point with probability about
> 1e-45.
> > >
> > > Maybe try random 1e8 (or so) and divide by 1e8 to get a more
> continuous,
> > > less grainy random sample out of the array.
> > >
> > > cheers
> > > Miller
> > >
> > > On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 01:51:19AM +0000, peiman khosravi wrote:
> > > > Hello,
> > > >
> > > > Has anyone got any experience with [array quantile]?
> > > >
> > > > I'm getting some strange results and I've done everything I can
> think of.
> > > >
> > > > I've attached a patch that should clarify the problem. Basically,
> > > > sometimes, not always, [array quantile] returns some weird numbers
> that I
> > > > can't explain.
> > > >
> > > > And a related issue: array random doesn't seem to be doing what it
> should
> > > > be doing. It returns very different values, compared with quantile
> fed
> > > with
> > > > random values between 0 and 1. Again, there is an example of what I
> mean
> > > in
> > > > the attached patch.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks
> > > > Peiman
> > > >
> > > >
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