Random number generation from right-skewed, symmetric, and left-skewed distributions

Risk Analysis

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 59-72

  Voit, Eberhard O ^a   Schwacke, Lorelei H ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Monte Carlo simulation; Random number generation; S distribution; Skewness

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RANDOM NUMBER GENERATION;

S-DISTRIBUTION METHOD;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

EID: 0034050939     PISSN: 02724332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/0272-4332.00006     Document Type: Article

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