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Re: RandomArray from user defined distribution?

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• Subject: [mg73350] Re: [mg73319] RandomArray from user defined distribution?
• From: "Richard Palmer" <rhpalmer at gmail.com>
• Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 07:00:50 -0500 (EST)
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The documentation is pretty clear.

<<RandomArray`DiscreteDistributions`  (* load the package*)
mu=3.7;                                              (* set mu to your
desired value *)
poi=PoissonDistribution[mu];                (* define a poission
distribution at mu *)
t=RandomArray[poi,1000];                    (* here is a random array *)

Regards
On 2/12/07, rob <robIV at piovere.com> wrote:
> I'd like to use the RandomArray to produce some data from
> what I think is a Poisson distribution in t
> P[t] = a^2 t Exp[-a*t]  where a is mean, sigma.
>
> I see one can use RandomArray to produce sample data from a
> lot of continuous distributions but the Poisson isn't among
> them (it's only available in the discrete form).
>
> I've made a bunch of crippled attempts to force my P[t] to
> put out examples but have failed. Any suggestions? Thanks.
>
>


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Richard Palmer
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    • From: rob <robIV@piovere.com>