Discrete Random Variates

Luc Devroye
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Luc Devroye: McGill University, School of Computer Science

Chapter Chapter Three in Non-Uniform Random Variate Generation, 1986, pp 83-117 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract A discrete random variable is a random variable taking only values on the nonnegatlve integers. In probability theoritical texts, a discrete random variable is a random variable which takes with probability one values in a given countable set of points. Since there is a one-to-one correspondence between any countable set and the nonnegative integers, it is clear that we need not consider the general case. In most cases of interest to the practitioner, this one-to-one correspondence is obvious.

Keywords: Search Tree; Inversion Method; Sequential Search; Discrete Random Variate; Binary Search Tree (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1986
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4613-8643-8_3

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