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An Efficient Method for Generating Discrete Random Variables with General Distributions

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        cover image ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software
        ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software  Volume 3, Issue 3
        Sept. 1977
        96 pages
        ISSN:0098-3500
        EISSN:1557-7295
        DOI:10.1145/355744
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