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

From: John Maddock (john_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-07-16 11:24:16

Michael Fuller wrote:
> 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.

Um, argument to the quantile function surely?

John.