Thursday, May 17, 2007

Random number generation

Luc Devroye from McGill University's School of Computer Science has provided pdf copies of his book, "Non-Uniform Random Variate Generation," on-line.

http://cg.scs.carleton.ca/~luc/rnbookindex.html

Most common distributions are already built into R, but sometimes you need to build your own -- Luc provides the algorithms to do it.

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