A modal method for generating binomial variables

DOI10.1080/03610928608829152MaRDI QIDQ3750020zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors 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

FORTRAN 77algorithmmodal probabilitygenerating binomial random variablesmodal down-up generatorsequentially searching

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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