Dew MtxVec NET
TPoissonRandMethod Type
Summary
Possion distribution random generator options.

Unit
RndGenerators

Declaration
TPoissonRandMethod = (prmPTPE = 0, prmNormal = 1);
 Value  Description 
prmPTPE - if lambda>=27, acceptance/rejection method is used with decomposition onto 4 regions: 2 combined parallelograms, triangle, left exponential tail and right exponential tail; othewise table lookup method is used 
prNormal for lambda>=1 method is based on Poisson inverse CDF approximation via Gaussian (normal) inverse CDF; for lambda<1 table lookup method is used. 

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