Sampling from the Poisson distribution on a computer

DOI10.1007/BF02276759MaRDI QIDQ1230341zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors George S. Fishman

Publication date 1976

Published in Computing (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02276759

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Probability distributions: general theory (60E05) Monte Carlo methods (65C05) Random number generation in numerical analysis (65C10)

Cites work

• Computer methods for sampling from gamma, beta, Poisson and binomial distributions
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3273551 (Why is no real title available?)

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• Modeling and Generating Stochastic Inputs for Simulation Studies
• An asymptotically optimal algorithm for generating bin cardinalities
• New algorithms for generating Poisson variates

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