A Note on Transformed Density Rejection

Computing (Vienna/New York)

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 187-192

  Leydold, J ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Austria)

Author keywords

Continuous distributions; Log concave distributions; Non uniform random variates; T concave distributions; Transformed density rejection; Universal method

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038752966     PISSN: 0010485X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s006070070019     Document Type: Article

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