Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.PCS 1/10/84; site mtuxo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!mtuxo!jrrt From: jrrt@mtuxo.UUCP (r.mitchell) Newsgroups: net.math Subject: Re: deviates from various distr Message-ID: <855@mtuxo.UUCP> Date: Mon, 5-Aug-85 20:12:10 EDT Article-I.D.: mtuxo.855 Posted: Mon Aug 5 20:12:10 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 6-Aug-85 12:39:13 EDT References: <2238@utcsstat.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Information Systems Labs, Holmdel NJ Lines: 18 I may be out of line here, but if a "deviate" is the same thing as a "realization" (that is, if you want functions that map random variables with a U[0,1] distribution to variables with other distribution functions, and if you don't mind a book, instead of a paper, as the reference, try SIMULATION MODELING AND ANALYSIS by Law and Kelton (McGraw-Hill, 1982). Chapter 7, "Generating Random Variables," includes a theoretial as well as practical discussion on generating Exponential, m-Erlnag, Gamma, Weibull, Normal, Chi-square, Student's t, F, Lognormal, Beta, Triangular, Bernoulli, Discrete Uniform, Binomial, Geometric, Negative Binomial, Poisson, and Empirical/Arbitrary distributions from a U[0,1] distribution. Apologies if I've misunderstood your request. Rob Mitchell {allegra,ihnp4}!mtuxo!jrrt Es un entreverado loco, lleno de lucidos intervalos. (He is a muddled fool, full of lucid intervals. *Don Quixote*)