A modal method for generating binomial variables

DOI10.1080/03610928608829152zbMath0609.65006OpenAlexW2130974529MaRDI QIDQ3750020

C. David Kemp

Publication date: 1986

Published in: Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/03610928608829152

zbMATH Keywords

algorithmFORTRAN 77modal probabilitygenerating binomial random variablesmodal down-up generatorsequentially searching

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Software, source code, etc. for problems pertaining to statistics (62-04) Random number generation in numerical analysis (65C10)

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