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poisson

PURPOSE

poisson.m simulates a homogeneous Poisson process

SYNOPSIS

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DESCRIPTION

 poisson.m simulates a homogeneous Poisson process

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manypoisson manypoisson.m generates many outcomes of the Poisson process using poisson.m

SOURCE CODE

0001 % poisson.m simulates a homogeneous Poisson process
0002 
0003 lambda=10;      % arrival rate
0004 Tmax=3;         % maximum time
0005 
0006 clear T;
0007 T(1)=random('Exponential',1/lambda);
0008 i=1;
0009 
0010 while T(i) < Tmax,
0011   T(i+1)=T(i)+random('Exponential',1/lambda);
0012   i=i+1;
0013 end
0014 
0015 Y=zeros(1,i-1);
0016 plot(T(1:(i-1)),Y,'.');