Computer methods for efficient sampling from largely arbitrary statistical distributions
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Publication:1136192
DOI10.1007/BF02243420zbMath0426.65003MaRDI QIDQ1136192
K. D. Kohrt, Joachim H. Ahrens
Publication date: 1981
Published in: Computing (Search for Journal in Brave)
Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02243420
simulation; Monte Carlo methods; pseudo-random number generator; inversion method; arbitrary distributions
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