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

John Maddock writes:

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.

Excellent, thanks John. Walking home last night I realized that another approach might be to use a uniform random number as the argument to the pdf function. Mike