Extended One-Liners for the Beta, Gamma, and Dirichlet Distributions with Shape Parameters Below One
Computation
2026-04-14 v1 Probability
Abstract
We present an explicit deterministic transformation of a fixed number of i.i.d. uniform random variables with exact Beta law for , using only elementary operations (an ``extended one-liner'', see \cite{devroye1996oneline}). As corollaries, the families Beta with , Gamma with , and Dirichlet with , for fixed , also have extended one-\liners.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2604.11199,
title = {Extended One-Liners for the Beta, Gamma, and Dirichlet Distributions with Shape Parameters Below One},
author = {Dylan Greaves},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.11199},
year = {2026}
}
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8 pages, 1 figure, 1 table