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20## @deftypefn {Function File} {} poisson_rnd (@var{lambda}, @var{r}, @var{c})
21## Return an @var{r} by @var{c} matrix of random samples from the
22## Poisson distribution with parameter @var{lambda}, which must be a
23## scalar or of size @var{r} by @var{c}.
25## If @var{r} and @var{c} are omitted, the size of the result matrix is
26## the size of @var{lambda}.
29## Author: KH <Kurt.Hornik@wu-wien.ac.at>
30## Description: Random deviates from the Poisson distribution
32## Deprecated in version 3.0
34function rnd = poisson_rnd (varargin)
36 persistent warned = false;
39 warning ("Octave:deprecated-function",
40 "poisson_rnd is obsolete and will be removed from a future version of Octave; please use poissrnd instead");
43 rnd = poissrnd (varargin{:});
