public virtual int NextGeometric(
	double p
)

Public Overridable Function NextGeometric ( 
	p As Double
) As Integer

public:
virtual int NextGeometric(
	double p
)

abstract NextGeometric : 
        p : float -> int 
override NextGeometric : 
        p : float -> int 

Parameters

p

Type: SystemDouble
A double which specifies the probability of success on each trial, .

Return Value

NextGeometric generates pseudorandom numbers from a geometric distribution with parameter p, where P =p is the probability of getting a success on any trial. A geometric deviate can be interpreted as the number of trials until the first success (including the trial in which the first success is obtained). The probability function is

for and

The geometric distribution as defined above has mean 1/P.

The i-th geometric deviate is generated as the smallest integer not less than , where the are independent uniform (0, 1) random numbers (see Knuth, 1981).

The geometric distribution is often defined on 0, 1, 2, ..., with mean (1 - P)/P. Such deviates can be obtained by subtracting 1 from each element returned value.

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