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Generating Nonuniform Random Numbers
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Abstract
In this chapter we look at how to transform uniform random numbers into samples from other distributions. We only consider standard or commonly found distributions and develop a cookbook of transformations. We give code for the transformations and investigate the effects of different uniform generators on the output.
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