A range reduction method for generating discrete random variables

DOI10.1016/j.spl.2013.01.002zbMath1266.65004MaRDI QIDQ1950755

Efraim Shmerling

Publication date: 13 May 2013

Published in: Statistics \& Probability Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.spl.2013.01.002

zbMATH Keywords

algorithm; probability generating function; random number generation; discrete distribution; geometric distribution of order \(r\)

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

65C10: Random number generation in numerical analysis

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Generation of discrete random variables in scalable frameworks, Algorithms for generating random variables with a rational probability-generating function

Uses Software

• 5tbl

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