Add rand_distr::TruncatedNormal #1523
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CHANGELOG.mdentrySummary
Add truncated normal distribution to
rand_distr, allowing users to specify the mean, standard deviation, left bound, and right bound of the distribution.Motivation
As discussion in #1189.
This would be use in numerical simulations, statistics, games, etc.
Details
This implementation is ported from
scipy.stats.truncnorm, which relies on Cephes Mathematical Library.An extra dependency is added of the Rust implementation of the Cephes library (
spec_math).