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Generating Random Numbers with Poisson Distribution

Syntax	poissrnd(lambda, rows, cols)
See Also	unirnd , normrnd , exprnd

Description
Returns an integer matrix containing random elements that are Poisson distributed with distribution parameter lambda, where lambda is greater than 0. The value rows is the number of rows and cols is the number of columns in the result.