Xref: utzoo comp.graphics:14217 sci.math:13243
Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!att!rutgers!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!unix.cis.pitt.edu!dtate
From: dtate@unix.cis.pitt.edu (David M Tate)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics,sci.math
Subject: Re: question regarding random numbers
Message-ID: <56154@unix.cis.pitt.edu>
Date: 2 Nov 90 00:15:32 GMT
References: <29358@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
Reply-To: dtate@unix.cis.pitt.edu (David M Tate)
Organization: Univ. of Pittsburgh, Comp & Info Services
Lines: 16

In article <29358@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> ph@miro.Berkeley.EDU (Paul Heckbert) writes:
>I'm looking for good references on techniques for generating random numbers
>with arbitrary density functions.  
>
>What are good references for such techniques of distribution shaping?

The ultimate reference for this stuff is "Nonuniform Random Number Generation"
by Luc Devroye, from Springer-Verlag.  If it's been done, and isn't extremely
recent, it's in there.  Knuth has some excellent stuff on this topic, but
most of the important parts are in Devroye anyway.


-- 
        David M. Tate        | What the hell does "30% chance of rain" mean?
  dtate@unix.cis.pitt.edu    | What do I do, carry a third of an umbrella?
 "A Man for all Seasonings"  |               		--Lawrence Block