A simple technique is described for simulations and analytical studies where the indication is of a unimodal, right-skewed dis tribution of a continuous random variable, the type of distribu tion often approximated by a gamma distribution. The technique is more realistic and more general than the "simple" techniques described in the simulation literature in that it does not require integer parameters.
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