Bug 817

Summary:	Pareto rng constructors using scale and shape instead of mean and shape
Product:	ns-3	Reporter:	Tommaso Pecorella <tommaso.pecorella>
Component:	core	Assignee:	ns-bugs <ns-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P5
Version:	ns-3-dev
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
URL:	http://codereview.appspot.com/207098/show

Description Tommaso Pecorella 2010-02-15 13:00:38 UTC

pareto rng constructors only allows the use of mean and shape, preventing to have a pareto with undefined mean (useful in some cases).

I added such constructors and added a warning in the documentation that making a pareto with a defined mean and shape <= 1 is definitely a bad idea. If an user doesn't read the manual and doesn't know what a pareto distribution is, he deserve a core dump.