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Re: Random # generator? [message #5660 is a reply to message #5659] Tue, 30 January 1996 00:00 Go to previous message
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In article <4em2j8$ga8@ra.nrl.navy.mil>, nicholas@uap.nrl.navy.mil (Andy Nicholas) writes...
> Hi,
> I'm looking for a random number generator that uses Poisson
> statistics rather than Gaussian (that is what the IDL routine uses).

The procedure POIDEV in the IDL Astronomy Library should do what you want.
The Library is located at http://idlastro.gsfc.nasa.gov/homepage.html

--Wayne Landsman landsman@sorbet.gsfc.nasa.gov
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