poissrnd function issue: weird histogram

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Saurabh Talele
Saurabh Talele on 21 Sep 2017
Edited: Saurabh Talele on 22 Sep 2017
I tried to produce 10^6 poisson distributed random numbers and when i looked at the histogram, it had either some gaps or shoots depending upon the bin size... can anyone exlpain whats happening here?
t = zeros(1000000,1);
for i = 1:1000000
t(i,1) = poissrnd(100);
end
hist(t,300)

Answers (1)

José-Luis
José-Luis on 21 Sep 2017
Edited: José-Luis on 21 Sep 2017
The loop is unnecessary:
histogram(poissrnd(100,1e6,1),300)
Works as expected.
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Saurabh Talele
Saurabh Talele on 22 Sep 2017
Edited: Saurabh Talele on 22 Sep 2017
Thanks a lot :) however, i am still curious about what happens in the stated case.

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