From: rwinther@my-dejanews.com
Subject: Re: Poisson Rand Numbers
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 17:26:47 GMT
Newsgroups: sci.math.num-analysis
Keywords: Pointer: codes for random number generation

In article <371C816D.41C6@network3.entropy.upenn.edu>,
  Guilherme Roschke <gr@network3.entropy.upenn.edu> wrote:
> Does anyone know of links to poisson random number generators in C?
> code would be great, but probably a site on Rand number generators and
> some hints of how to transform rand() into a Poisson distribution would
> be extremely helpful
>
> guilherme
>
> --
> Guilherme Roschke
> Programmer
> Dept. of Anesthesia
> University of Pennsylvania Medical School
> gr@network3.entropy.upenn.edu
>
Try http://www.netlib.org/random/ranlib.c.tar.gz

Netlib says of this library

  random number generation from the distributions: beta, chi-square,
  exponential, F, gamma, multivariate normal, noncentral chi-square,
  noncentral F, univariate normal, uniform, binomial, negative binomial,
  multinomial, Poisson;  also: random permutations of an integer array.

If you go to www.netlib.org and search for "Poisson random" (without
the quotes), in addition to code offerings you'll also get links to
documents that describe algorithms for generating such random numbers.

Ron Winther

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