• DocumentCode
    3583487
  • Title

    Generating multi-dimensional discrete distribution random number

  • Author

    Hu, Xiaoping ; Cui, Hairong

  • Author_Institution
    Sch. of Econ. & Manage., Southeast Univ., Nanjing, China
  • Volume
    3
  • fYear
    2010
  • Firstpage
    1102
  • Lastpage
    1104
  • Abstract
    Multi-dimensional discrete random number plays an important role in computer simulations. However, the existing high-level computer languages usually only give one-dimensional discrete random number, not appease the needs of computer simulation and experiment. Most existing studies focusing on continuous distribution and one-dimensional discrete distribution, in this paper, theory and method on how to obtain random numbers subject to an arbitrary multi-dimensional discrete probability distribution applying random numbers with uniform distribution are given to solve this problem.
  • Keywords
    digital simulation; random number generation; statistical distributions; computer simulation; high-level computer language; multidimensional discrete distribution random number generation; multidimensional discrete probability distribution; uniform distribution; Accuracy; Arrays; Computer simulation; Monte Carlo methods; Probability distribution; Programming; Random number generation; Algorithm; Multi-dimensional Discrete Distribution; Random Number Generation; uniform distribution;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Natural Computation (ICNC), 2010 Sixth International Conference on
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-5958-2
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICNC.2010.5583695
  • Filename
    5583695