On the computer generation of the Erlang and negative binomial distributions with shape parameter equal to two

DOI10.1016/j.matcom.2008.07.010zbMath1163.65008MaRDI QIDQ1005206

J. Martínez

Publication date: 9 March 2009

Published in: Mathematics and Computers in Simulation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matcom.2008.07.010

zbMATH Keywords

negative binomial distributions; Lambert W-function; quantile functions; inverse transform method

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

62E17: Approximations to statistical distributions (nonasymptotic)

33F05: Numerical approximation and evaluation of special functions

33B30: Higher logarithm functions

Uses Software

• Mathematica
• Matlab