Generating Gamma and Beta Random Variables with Non‐Integral Shape Parameters

J. Whittaker

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series C, 1974, vol. 23, issue 2, 210-214

Abstract: A method of generating random variables with the gamma or beta distribution having non‐integral shape parameters from uniform random variables is given.

Date: 1974
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