Re: Poisson random numbers
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- Subject: [mg3069] Re: Poisson random numbers
- From: ianc (Ian Collier)
- Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 02:24:00 -0500
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In article <4efb48$rp7 at dragonfly.wri.com>, onm010 at uni-essen.de (Dr. Stefan
P. Mueller) wrote:
> Does anybody have a Poisson random number generator or do I have to write
> my own? I could not find anything on MathSource.
>
> Stefan
>
> --
> Dr. Stefan P. Mueller, Nuklearmedizin, Universitaetsklinikum, Essen,
> e-mail: onm010 at uni-essen.de, phone: <49> 201/ 723-4179, FAX: -5964
You can do this using the built in Random function together
with the PoissonDistribution function defined in
Statistics`DiscreteDistributions`, one of the standard
packages distributed with Mathematica.
For example, after loading the DiscreteDistributions
package
Needs[ "Statistics`DidcreteDistributions`" ]
The command
Random[ PoissonDistribution[ 1 ] ]
will generate a pseudorandom number with a Poisson distribution.
For further details refer to The Guide to Standard Mathematica
Packages Technical Report.
I hope this helps.
--Ian
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