Re: [Boost-users] [math/distributions/poisson] extractPoisson-distributed random variate?

Michael Fuller wrote:

I've searched the Boost documentation and mail archive, but I can't find an example for extracting a random variate from a Poisson distribution. What I want to do is similar to extracting a variate from a uniform distribution, such as the C++ rand() function, which returns a single random variate on the range [0, RAND_MAX].

Is there a way to do something similar using the Poisson distribution with a given mean? For example, something like this:

double n, lambda(0.30); //lambda is the mean of the Poisson n = poisson_rand(lambda);

Try boost/random/poisson_distribution.hpp, unfortunately appears not to be documented, but usage is the same as the other distributions in Boost.Random. HTH, John.