Computer Generation of Poisson Deviates from Modified Normal Distributions

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Computer Generation of Poisson Deviates from Modified Normal Distributions

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ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software (TOMS) archive
Volume 8 , Issue 2 (June 1982) table of contents

Pages: 163 - 179

Year of Publication: 1982

ISSN:0098-3500

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J. H. Ahrens	Department of Mathematics, University of Kiel, D 2300 Kiel, Olshausenstrasse 40-60, West Germany
U. Dieter	Institute of Statistics, Technical University, A 8010 Graz, Hamerlinggasse 6, Austria

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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	1	Milton Abramowitz, Handbook of Mathematical Functions, With Formulas, Graphs, and Mathematical Tables,, Dover Publications, Incorporated, 1974
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	Ernst Stadlober , Heinz Zechner, The patchwork rejection technique for sampling from unimodal distributions, ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation (TOMACS), v.9 n.1, p.59-80, Jan. 1999
	Voratas Kachitvichyanukul, Discrete univariate random variate generation, Proceedings of the 15th conference on Winter simulation, p.179-188, December 12-14, 1983, Arlington, Virginia, United States
	Voratas Kachitvichyanukul , Bruce W. Schmeiser, Binomial random variate generation, Communications of the ACM, v.31 n.2, p.216-222, Feb. 1988
	J. H. Ahrens , K. D. Kohrt , U. Dieter, Algorithm 599: sampling from Gamma and Poisson distributions, ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software (TOMS), v.9 n.2, p.255-257, June 1983
	Joachim H. Ahrens , Ulrich Dieter, Efficient table-free sampling methods for the exponential, Cauchy, and normal distributions, Communications of the ACM, v.31 n.11, p.1330-1337, Nov. 1988

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G. Mathematics of Computing

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