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Re: generating random numbers in Mathematica

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  • Subject: [mg34508] Re: generating random numbers in Mathematica
  • From: Richard Palmer <mapsinc at bellatlantic.net>
  • Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 02:42:13 -0400 (EDT)
  • Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

There is a very readable analysis of Random # generation with non-standard
RVs in MATHEMATICAL STATISTICS with MATHEMATICA by Colin Rose and Murray
Smith.  It is worth reviewing, especially if you want to do this in
Mathematica.

Best of Luck,
Richard Palmer

On 5/23/02 3:32 AM, "Borut L" <gollum at email.si> wrote:

> If I were you, I would look into Numerical Recipes (www.nr.com), where some
> space is dedicated to random number generating.
> 
> An arbitary PDF can be effectively delt with a cover function.
> 
> Bye,
> 
> Borut Levart
> 
> "ester" <Ester.Piedipalumbo at na.infn.it> wrote in message
> news:acferi$rmd$1 at smc.vnet.net...
>> 
>>  dear Sirs,
>>  my name is Ester Piedipalumbo and I am a post doc at the phisics dep. of
>>  Naples University.
>>  I would like to know if there is something for generating random number
>>  according an arbitary PDF (where arbitrary means that it is not standard,
>>  but I know, of cource)
>>  Thank a lot
>>  best regrds
>>  Ester
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
> 
> 
> 



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