The Computer Generation of Poisson Random Variables

DOI10.2307/2346807MaRDI QIDQ3870204zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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

computer generationPoisson distributionPoisson processPoisson random variables

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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• New goodness-of-fit test statistics for discrete and grouped continuous data.
• On the probabilistic representations of solutions of pantograph equations and triangle coefficients
• An asymptotically optimal algorithm for generating bin cardinalities
• Random variate generators for the Poisson-Poisson and related distributions

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