Efficient Monte Carlo Procedures for Generating Points Uniformly Distributed over Bounded Regions

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DOI10.1287/opre.32.6.1296zbMath0552.65004OpenAlexW2125299871WikidataQ56172085 ScholiaQ56172085MaRDI QIDQ3345655

Robert L. Smith

Publication date: 1984

Published in: Operations Research (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/7681




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