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st: exponential distribution


From   Jon Schwabish <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   st: exponential distribution
Date   Tue, 19 Feb 2008 18:02:44 -0800 (PST)

Does anyone know how to create an exponential
distribution with a mean of 1 to use as random
numbers? I believe it's a tweak on exp=-ln(uniform()),
but am not sure.

Thanks,
jon



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