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## -*- texinfo -*-
## @deftypefn {Function File} {} lognormal_rnd (@var{a}, @var{v}, @var{r}, @var{c})
## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} lognormal_rnd (@var{a}, @var{v}, @var{sz})
## Return an @var{r} by @var{c} matrix of random samples from the
## lognormal distribution with parameters @var{a} and @var{v}. Both
## @var{a} and @var{v} must be scalar or of size @var{r} by @var{c}.
## Or if @var{sz} is a vector, create a matrix of size @var{sz}.
##
## If @var{r} and @var{c} are omitted, the size of the result matrix is
## the common size of @var{a} and @var{v}.
## @end deftypefn

## Author: KH <Kurt.Hornik@wu-wien.ac.at>
## Description: Random deviates from the log normal distribution

function rnd = lognormal_rnd (varargin)

  if (nargin > 1)
    a = varargin{2};
    idx = a >= 0;
    a(idx) = log (a(idx));
    a(!idx) = NaN;
    varargin{2} = a;
  endif

  if (nargin > 2)
    v = varargin{3};
    idx = v >= 0;
    v(idx) = sqrt (v(idx));
    v(!idx) = NaN;
    varargin{3} = v;
  endif

 rnd = lognrnd (varargin{:});

endfunction