On Khintchine's theorem and its place in random variate generation

American Statistician

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 304-307

  Jones, M C ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Monotone density; Uniform distribution; Unimodal density; Vertical density representation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036843666     PISSN: 00031305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/000313002588     Document Type: Article

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