USE OF TABULATED CUMULATIVE DENSITY-FUNCTIONS TO GENERATE PSEUDORANDOM NUMBERS OBEYING SPECIFIC DISTRIBUTIONS FOR MONTE-CARLO SIMULATIONS

Authors
ZIJP JR TENBOSCH JJ
Citation
Jr. Zijp et Jj. Tenbosch, USE OF TABULATED CUMULATIVE DENSITY-FUNCTIONS TO GENERATE PSEUDORANDOM NUMBERS OBEYING SPECIFIC DISTRIBUTIONS FOR MONTE-CARLO SIMULATIONS, Applied optics, 33(3), 1994, pp. 533-534
Citations number
3
Categorie Soggetti
Optics
Journal title
Applied optics → ACNP
ISSN journal
00036935
Volume
33
Issue
3
Year of publication
1994
Pages
533 - 534
Database
ISI
SICI code
0003-6935(1994)33:3<533:UOTCDT>2.0.ZU;2-0
Abstract
A new method for the generation of pseudorandom numbers, which obey a specific statistical distribution, is presented. As an example the gen eration of the scattering angle theta for Monte Carlo light-scattering simulations is shown, using real, peaked, scattering phase functions.