A note on approximations in random variate generation

DOI10.1080/00949658208810536zbMath0474.65002OpenAlexW2039142693MaRDI QIDQ3928898

Luc P. Devroye

Publication date: 1982

Published in: Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/00949658208810536

zbMATH Keywords

total variationupper boundsuniform deviation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Random number generation in numerical analysis (65C10)

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