Generating gamma variates

DOI10.1145/44128.214382MaRDI QIDQ3793597zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Do Le Minh (Paul)

Publication date 1988

Published in ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL http://www.acm.org/pubs/contents/journals/toms/1988-14/

zbMATH Keywords

acceptance-rejectiongamma variatesmodification

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Random number generation in numerical analysis (65C10)

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