Random variable generation using concavity properties of transformed densities)?

Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 514-528

  Evans, M ^a   Swartz, T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adaptive rejection sampling; Points of inflection; Random variate generator; T concavity; T convexity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032286818     PISSN: 10618600     EISSN: 15372715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10618600.1998.10474792     Document Type: Article

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