Generate random numbers
has a number of distribution functions included, in order for you to be able to generate random numbers very efficiently. This capability might be extremely useful when you want to quickly populate a multidimensional parameter.
Say I declare a parameter 
called Traffic, over 2 
indices from the same set 
Locations with a size of 200 elements. That’s pretty much 200 * 200 = 40 000 numbers that you want to generate roughly between 0 and 200 vehicles.
Let’s create a set Locations in AIMMS, specify 2 indices l1 and l2, and define it as elementrange(1,201,1,"Location-").
Then let’s create the new parameter that we want to populate with data, over those 2 indices. To do so, just index this parameter over l1 and l2, and put uniform(0,200) in his definition. Check the data of this parameter ( CTRL + D ), and see the result:
If we would plot our parameter distribution we would end up with a uniform distribution.
See also
AIMMS proposes a lot of other different distributions, listed below:
See the AIMMS example project GenerateRandomNumbers.zip.
Normal Distribution
\(f(x)={\tfrac {1}{\sigma {\sqrt {2\pi }}}}\;\;{\mathrm {e}}^{{-{\frac {1}{2}}\left({\frac {x-\mu }{\sigma }}\right)^{2}}}\)
Log Normal Distribution
\({\displaystyle f(x;\mu ,\sigma )={\frac {1}{x\sigma {\sqrt {2\pi }}}}\exp \left(-{\frac {(\ln x-\mu )^{2}}{2\sigma ^{2}}}\right)={\frac {1}{x}}f_{X}(\ln(x);\mu ,\sigma )}\)