Sampling from the generalized logarithmic series distribution

DOI10.1007/BF02684348MaRDI QIDQ1362834zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Felix Famoye

Publication date 3 February 1998

Published in Computing (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02684348

zbMATH Keywords

algorithmsrandom number generationrejection methodbranching methodinversion methodgeneralized logarithmic series distributionpseudo-random variates

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Random number generation in numerical analysis (65C10) Probabilistic methods, stochastic differential equations (65C99) Approximations to statistical distributions (nonasymptotic) (62E17) Pseudo-random numbers; Monte Carlo methods (11K45)

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