and statistics, a random variate or simply variate is a particular outcome or realization of a random variable; the random variates which are other outcomes...
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Gamma distribution (redirect from Gamma variate)
2024-10-09. Retrieved 2023-09-06. Devroye, Luc (1986). Non-Uniform Random Variate Generation. New York: Springer-Verlag. ISBN 978-0-387-96305-1. Archived...
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Poisson distribution (redirect from Poisson random variable)
\theta _{2}-\theta _{12}} }],. The less trivial task is to draw integer random variate from the Poisson distribution with given λ . {\displaystyle \lambda...
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Non-uniform random variate generation or pseudo-random number sampling is the numerical practice of generating pseudo-random numbers (PRN) that follow...
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Exponential distribution (redirect from Exponential random variable)
simple method for generating exponential variates is based on inverse transform sampling: Given a random variate U drawn from the uniform distribution on...
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Pareto distribution (section Random variate generation)
{1}{2\alpha -1}}} (see Aaberge 2005). Random samples can be generated using inverse transform sampling. Given a random variate U drawn from the uniform distribution...
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Geometric distribution (redirect from Geometric random variable)
This can be used to generate geometrically distributed random numbers as detailed in § Random variate generation. If p = 1/n and X is geometrically distributed...
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{Laplace}}(0,b)} variate can also be generated as the difference of two i.i.d. Exponential ( 1 / b ) {\displaystyle {\textrm {Exponential}}(1/b)} random variables...
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Log-normal distribution (redirect from Log-normal random variable)
distribution is the maximum entropy probability distribution for a random variate X—for which the mean and variance of ln X are specified. Let Z {\displaystyle...
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Gumbel distribution (section Random variate generation)
the variate Q ( U ) {\displaystyle Q(U)} has a Gumbel distribution with parameters μ {\displaystyle \mu } and β {\displaystyle \beta } when the random variate...
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Binomial distribution (redirect from Binomial random variable)
ISBN 978-0521642989. "Beta distribution". Devroye, Luc (1986) Non-Uniform Random Variate Generation, New York: Springer-Verlag. (See especially Chapter X, Discrete...
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uniformly distributed numbers are often used as the basis for non-uniform random variate generation. If u {\displaystyle u} is a value sampled from the standard...
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Rademacher distribution (redirect from Rademacher random variable)
after Hans Rademacher) is a discrete probability distribution where a random variate X has a 50% chance of being +1 and a 50% chance of being −1. A series...
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"Non-Uniform Random Variate Generation". Retrieved 19 October 2019. Dirichlet Random Measures, Method of Construction via Compound Poisson Random Variables...
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Burr distribution (section Random variate generation)
The λ {\displaystyle \lambda } parameter scales the underlying variate and is a positive real. The cumulative distribution function is: F ( x...
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∑ i = 1 k p i = 1 {\displaystyle \sum _{i=1}^{k}p_{i}=1} . Then if the random variables Xi indicate the number of times outcome number i is observed over...
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random variables. That is, a Nakagami random variable X {\displaystyle X} is generated by a simple scaling transformation on a chi-distributed random...
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{{N}{\overline {x^{2}}}}{a}}} Given a random variate U drawn from the uniform distribution in the interval (0, 1), then the variate X = σ − 2 ln U {\displaystyle...
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{1}{24}}\end{aligned}}} Given a random variate U drawn from the uniform distribution in the interval (0, 1), then the variate X = { a + U ( b − a ) ( c −...
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Erlang distribution (redirect from Erlang random variable)
{\frac {k}{\lambda }}.} Erlang-distributed random variates can be generated from uniformly distributed random numbers ( U ∈ [ 0 , 1 ] {\displaystyle U\in...
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Algorithmically random sequence Quasi-random sequence Random number generation Random sequence Random variable Random variate Random real Richard Durstenfeld...
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( 0 , 1 ) {\displaystyle N(0,1)} is standard normal random variate. The exponential random variate is : E ( δ ) = − δ − 1 ln ( R ( 0 , 1 ) ) {\displaystyle...
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Pseudorandom number generator (redirect from Pseudo-random number generator)
Random Number Generation and Monte Carlo Methods, Springer. Hörmann W., Leydold J., Derflinger G. (2004, 2011), Automatic Nonuniform Random Variate Generation...
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(n_{2},y_{1}+\alpha ,n_{1}-y_{1}+\beta )} . To draw a beta-binomial random variate X ∼ B e t a B i n ( n , α , β ) {\displaystyle X\sim \mathrm {BetaBin}...
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Probability distribution (redirect from Continuous Random Variable)
interval [0, 1). These random variates X {\displaystyle X} are then transformed via some algorithm to create a new random variate having the required probability...
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consists of points on the unit circle. If ϕ {\displaystyle \phi } is a random variate in the interval ( − ∞ , ∞ ) {\displaystyle (-\infty ,\infty )} with...
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Beta distribution (section Random variate generation)
algorithm for generating beta variates is to generate X X + Y {\displaystyle {\frac {X}{X+Y}}} , where X is a gamma variate with parameters (α, 1) and Y...
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Inverse transform sampling (category Non-uniform random numbers)
technique to generate random variates that does not rely on inversion of the CDF. Luc Devroye (1986). Non-Uniform Random Variate Generation (PDF). New...
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Universal Non-Uniform RANdom number generators". "Runuran: R Interface to the 'UNU.RAN' Random Variate Generators". 17 January 2023. "Random Number Generators...
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distribution to higher dimensions. One definition is that a random vector is said to be k-variate normally distributed if every linear combination of its...
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