The economical method for generating random samples from discrete distributions

DOI10.1145/5960.214321MaRDI QIDQ3719697zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors I. Deák

Publication date 1986

Published in ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL http://www.acm.org/pubs/contents/journals/toms/1986-12/

zbMATH Keywords

alias methoddiscrete distributioneconomical methodgeneral techniques of generationsimulation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Random number generation in numerical analysis (65C10) Probabilistic methods, stochastic differential equations (65C99)

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