Transformations and random variate generation: Generalised ratio-of-uniforms methods

Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation

Volumn 55, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 49-55

  Jones, M C ^a   Lunn, A D ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Random numbers; Rejection; Simulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030371745     PISSN: 00949655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00949659608811748     Document Type: Article

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