[WIP] Arbitrary distributions of newborns' states #1121
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It would be useful for us to let users specify whatever distribution they want for drawing the initial states of newborns.
For instance, I would like to draw the initial savings and permanent income levels of an
IndShockConsumerTypeagent from some distribution calibrated to the SCF, not necessarily two independent lognormals as the current code requires.This should be easy. Give me a
Distributionobject with the right dimensions and I will simply draw from it whenever agents are born. The issue, as usual is the current simulation tests (#1105).This PR will contain my work towards the general-distribution-object purpose. I will try to find an elegant way not to break existing tests.