Generalized poisson random variate generation

American Journal of Mathematical and Management Sciences

Volumn 17, Issue 3-4, 1997, Pages 219-237

  Famoye, Felix ^a  

^a CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Branching method; Generalized Poisson sampling; Inverse transform method; Normal approximation; Rejection method

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

DISTRIBUTION SPECIFIC METHOD; INVERSE TRANSFORM METHOD; POISSON DISTRIBUTION;

RANDOM PROCESSES;

EID: 0031359978     PISSN: 01966324     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01966324.1997.10737439     Document Type: Article

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