Sampling from the Poisson distribution on a computer

DOI10.1007/BF02276759zbMath0336.65002OpenAlexW201119561MaRDI QIDQ1230341

George S. Fishman

Publication date: 1976

Published in: Computing (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02276759

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Monte Carlo methods (65C05) Probability distributions: general theory (60E05) Random number generation in numerical analysis (65C10)

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