test3: Approximate Poisson generator

In mcsm: Functions for Monte Carlo Methods with R

Description

This function considers the possible values of a Poisson random variable to lay within 3*sqrt(lambda) of lambda and is proposed for comparison with the regular rpois generator.

Usage

test3(Nsim = 10^4, lambda = 100)

Arguments

Nsim	Number of simulations
lambda	Poisson parameter

Details

This function replicates rpois(Nsim,lambda) and thus should not be used.

Value

This function produces a integer vector of size Nsim

warning

The output is not an exact Poisson sample because of the truncation on the support. Use rpois instead.

Author(s)

Christian P. Robert and George Casella

References

From Chapter 2 of EnteR Monte Carlo Statistical Methods

See Also

test4,rpois

Examples

mean(test3(Nsim=10^4))
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