rcellnumber(n, N = 10, mu=1)
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An integer greater than 1.
=>
n
.
mu = 1
(the default),
this function generates random integers which have mean and variance
equal to 1, but which do not have a Poisson distribution.
The random integers take the values $0$, $1$ and $N$
with probabilities $1/N$, $(N-2)/(N-1)$ and $1/(N(N-1))$
respectively.
See Baddeley and Silverman (1984). If mu
is another positive number, the random integers will
have mean and variance equal to mu
. They are obtained by
generating the
one-dimensional counterpart of the cell process and counting the
number of points in the interval from 0
to mu
. The
maximum possible value of each random integer is N * ceiling(mu)
.
rcell