The Editor's Corner: The Exponential Distribution

DOI10.2307/2322841MaRDI QIDQ3763314zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Herbert S. Wilf

Publication date 1987

Published in The American Mathematical Monthly (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.2307/2322841

zbMATH Keywords

constructing random number generators

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Distribution theory (60E99) Random number generation in numerical analysis (65C10)

Recommendations

• Algorithm 780: exponential pseudorandom distribution
• The Neumann-Forsythe method for simulation of an exponential family of distributions
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3870466
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 778073
• An algorithm for the generation of random numbers with density C exp(- \(\lambda\) \(| x| ^{\nu})\)

Cited in

(3)

• The Neumann-Forsythe method for simulation of an exponential family of distributions
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3870466 (Why is no real title available?)
• Algorithm 780: exponential pseudorandom distribution

This page was built for publication: The Editor's Corner: The Exponential Distribution

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q3763314)