Universal Algorithms as an Alternative for Generating Non-Uniform Continuous Random Variates

This paper presents an overview of the most powerful universal methods. These are based on acceptance/rejection techniques where hat and squeezes are constructed automatically. Although originally motivated to sample from non-standard distributions these methods have advantages that make them attrac...

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Main Authors: Leydold, Josef, Hörmann, Wolfgang
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: Department of Statistics and Mathematics, Abt. f. Angewandte Statistik u. Datenverarbeitung, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business 2000
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Online Access:http://epub.wu.ac.at/844/1/document.pdf