Re: [Boost-users] [math/distributions/poisson] extractPoisson-distributed random variate?

From: Michael Fuller (mm.fuller_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-07-16 09:52:41

John Maddock <john <at> johnmaddock.co.uk> writes:

> Try boost/random/poisson_distribution.hpp, unfortunately appears not to be 
> documented, but usage is the same as the other distributions in 
> Boost.Random.
> 
> HTH, John. 

Excellent, thanks John. 
Walking home last night I realized that another approach might be to 
use a uniform random number as the argument to the pdf function.

Mike