Extended One-Liners for the Gamma, Poisson, and Binomial Distributions
Dylan Greaves
Abstract
We demonstrate explicit transformations of three independent uniforms with exact Gamma(a,1), a>0, Poisson(λ), λ>0, and Binomial(N,p), N≥ 1, 0≤ p ≤ 1 laws using only elementary operations.
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