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From: anthony@utcsstat.UUCP (Anthony Ayiomamitis)
Newsgroups: net.math
Subject: deviates from various distr
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Date: Thu, 1-Aug-85 10:09:54 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug  1 10:09:54 1985
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	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.

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