Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site cadovax.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!harvard!talcott!panda!genrad!decvax!tektronix!hplabs!sdcrdcf!trwrb!trwrba!cadovax!keithd From: keithd@cadovax.UUCP (Keith Doyle) Newsgroups: net.math Subject: Re: deviates from various distr Message-ID: <761@cadovax.UUCP> Date: Mon, 5-Aug-85 21:35:55 EDT Article-I.D.: cadovax.761 Posted: Mon Aug 5 21:35:55 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 12-Aug-85 01:15:09 EDT References: <2238@utcsstat.UUCP> Organization: CONTEL CADO Systems, Torrance, CA Lines: 19 > > I am looking for references to papers describing how one may generate > random deviates from various distributions (for example, normal, Poisson) > using a uniform random number generator. As many of you may know, micro- > computers have built-in random number generators. However, these only > produce deviates which are uniform and in the range [0,1]. Thus, one must > use some "trick" to get deviates from other distributions. > > -- > > {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!utcsstat!anthony > {ihnp4|decvax|utzoo|utcsrgv}!utcs!utzoo!utcsstat!anthony I'd like to hear about this too. Keith Doyle # {ucbvax,ihnp4,decvax}!trwrb!cadovax!keithd