Generate random numbers with a given distribution

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Swift probability of random number being selected?

The top answer suggests to use a switch statement, which does the job. However, i

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This seems like a good opportunity for a shameless plug to my small library, swiftstats: https://github.com/r0fls/swiftstats

For example, this would generate 3 random variables from a normal distribution with mean 0 and variance 1:

import SwiftStats
let n = SwiftStats.Distributions.Normal(0, 1.0)
print(n.random())

Supported distributions include: normal, exponential, binomial, etc...

It also supports fitting sample data to a given distribution, using the Maximum Likelihood Estimator for the distribution.

See the project readme for more info.