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/*
 *  Mathlib : A C Library of Special Functions
 *  Copyright (C) 1998 Ross Ihaka and the R Core Team.
 *  Copyright (C) 2000 The R Core Team
 *
 *  This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 *  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 *  the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
 *  (at your option) any later version.
 *
 *  This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 *  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 *  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 *  GNU General Public License for more details.
 *
 *  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
 *  along with this program; if not, a copy is available at
 *  http://www.r-project.org/Licenses/
 *
 *  SYNOPSIS
 *
 *    #include <Rmath.h>
 *    double rgeom(double p);
 *
 *  DESCRIPTION
 *
 *    Random variates from the geometric distribution.
 *
 *  NOTES
 *
 *    We generate lambda as exponential with scale parameter
 *    p / (1 - p).  Return a Poisson deviate with mean lambda.
 *
 *  REFERENCE
 *
 *    Devroye, L. (1986).
 *    Non-Uniform Random Variate Generation.
 *    New York: Springer-Verlag.
 *    Page 480.
 */

#include "nmath.h"

double rgeom(double p)
{
    if (!R_FINITE(p) || p <= 0 || p > 1) ML_ERR_return_NAN;

    return rpois(exp_rand() * ((1 - p) / p));
}