The Computer Generation of Poisson Random Variables

DOI10.2307/2346807zbMath0432.65004OpenAlexW12955791MaRDI QIDQ3870204

Anthony C. Atkinson

Publication date: 1979

Published in: Applied Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/2346807

zbMATH Keywords

Poisson distributionPoisson processPoisson random variablescomputer generation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Monte Carlo methods (65C05) Random number generation in numerical analysis (65C10)

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