1## Copyright (C) 1995, 1996, 1997, 2005, 2007, 2008 Kurt Hornik
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20## @deftypefn {Function File} {} binomial_rnd (@var{n}, @var{p}, @var{r}, @var{c})
21## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} binomial_rnd (@var{n}, @var{p}, @var{sz})
22## Return an @var{r} by @var{c} or a @code{size (@var{sz})} matrix of
23## random samples from the binomial distribution with parameters @var{n}
24## and @var{p}. Both @var{n} and @var{p} must be scalar or of size
27## If @var{r} and @var{c} are omitted, the size of the result matrix is
28## the common size of @var{n} and @var{p}.
31## Author: KH <Kurt.Hornik@wu-wien.ac.at>
32## Description: Random deviates from the binomial distribution
34## Deprecated in version 3.0
36function rnd = binomial_rnd (varargin)
38 persistent warned = false;
41 warning ("Octave:deprecated-function",
42 "binomial_rnd is obsolete and will be removed from a future version of Octave; please use binornd instead");
45 rnd = binornd (varargin{:});
