The Computer Generation of Poisson Random Variables

DOI10.2307/2346807zbMATH Open0432.65004OpenAlexW12955791MaRDI QIDQ3870204FDOQ3870204

Authors: Anthony C. Atkinson 

Publication date: 1979

Published in: Applied Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/2346807

zbMATH Keywords

Poisson distributionPoisson processPoisson random variablescomputer generation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Monte Carlo methods (65C05) Random number generation in numerical analysis (65C10)

Cited In (9)

• Computer methods for efficient sampling from largely arbitrary statistical distributions
• On the probabilistic representations of solutions of pantograph equations and triangle coefficients
• A note on approximations in random variate generation
• New goodness-of-fit test statistics for discrete and grouped continuous data.
• Random variate generators for the Poisson-Poisson and related distributions
• The computer generation of Poisson random variables
• Computer generation of negative binomial variates by envelope rejection
• A goodness of fit test for the Poisson distribution based on the empirical generating function
• Generating beta random numbers and Dirichlet random vectors in R: the package rBeta2009

This page was built for publication: The Computer Generation of Poisson Random Variables

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q3870204)