st: Poisson Number Generation

["Martin Weiss" <martin.weiss@uni-tuebingen.de>]

Dear Statalisters,

to pick up the recent discussion of random number generation in Stata, how
would one go about generating poisson random numbers without calling any
external programs? I am certainly not as adept as others on the list
inverting cumulative distribution functions, so I would appreciate any
suggestions...


Martin Weiss



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