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Sampling an integer-shape gamma distribution
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If
m
is
a
positive integer
and
U
1
,
…
,
U
m
are independent uniform variables, then
−
r
1
∑
j
=
1
m
lo
g
U
j
(1)
has the
gamma distribution
with
shape
m
and rate
r
, because each summand is exponential with rate
r
.
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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge
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2025
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ii
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Paper 4
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28L
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c
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