From octave-maintainers-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Sat Jan 24 19:16:27 2004
Subject: Re: randn benchmarks
From: "Dmitri A. Sergatskov" <dmitri at unm dot edu>
To: Paul Kienzle <pkienzle at users dot sourceforge dot net>
Cc: octave-maintainers at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 18:18:16 -0700


> I should also take the opportunity to add in the fast
> poisson generator that I have, but that will have to
> wait until next pass.
> 

Is it replacement for poisson_rnd by Kurt Hornik?
(Or I am mixing apples with oranges again.)
I had to use it the other day and it was so slow it was unusable
for me. I found another one on the net (statbox by Gordon K Smyth at
http://www.statsci.org/ with unfortunately undefined license --
it appears to be free to use) which is 10 times faster.
In the help it sayes it uses "naive inversion method."

> Paul Kienzle
> pkienzle at users dot sf dot net
> 

Sincerely,

Dmitri.