Beichl, I.
and Sullivan, F.
(1999),
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This is a tutorial article on the alias method which we use to sample from the Poisson distribution quickly.Citation
IEEE Computing in Science and Engineering
Volume
1
Issue
No. 4
Pub Type
Journals
Keywords
algorithms, discrete distribution, Poisson, probability, sampling
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Created August 1, 1999, Updated February 17, 2017