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Using Stable Distributions in Mathematica

Chambers, Mallows, and Stuck (1976) published an algorithm for the generation of  stable random variables.  It is implemented in the Stable MathLink Package as the function, StableRandom; similar code is implemented in the supplemental package as the function, SRandom.  The example below generates a stable random sequence of  10 numbers in the S(α, β, γ, δ; 1) parameterization where p1 is a parameter set, {α, β, γ, δ}.

p1 = {1,3, 0.5, 1, 0.5}

{-1.30558, 8.32448, 2.26377, -0.14893, 0.669163, -0,25539, -0.216304, -0.146468, 0.0379229, 0.133912} 

 

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