Poisson distr

nicholaspr has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi My question is, how do I generate a random number from a Poisson distribution with a certain mean Thank you Nicholas

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Re: Poisson distr by zwon (Abbot) on Jan 16, 2010 at 16:47 UTC
Have a look on Math::Random and Math::Random::MT::Auto `use Math::Random qw(random_poisson); my $rnd = random_poisson($n, $mu);` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Poisson distr by nicholaspr (Novice) on Jan 25, 2010 at 14:43 UTC
Than you very much!!!!	[reply]