Rayleigh Distribution - Generating Rayleigh-distributed Random Variates

Generating Rayleigh-distributed Random Variates

Given a random variate U drawn from the uniform distribution in the interval (0, 1), then the variate

has a Rayleigh distribution with parameter .

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