scientific article; zbMATH DE number 269483

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Authors Joachim H. Ahrens

Publication date 18 August 1993

zbMATH Keywords

Fortran algorithmsnear-optimal subdivisionsSAMPLE-routinesampling from arbitrary distributionstable generating algorithm SPLIT

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Monte Carlo methods (65C05) Random number generation in numerical analysis (65C10) Statistical tables (62Q05) Statistical distribution theory (62E99)

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