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+## Copyright (C) 1997  Kurt Hornik
+##
+## This file is part of Octave.
+##
+## Octave 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, or (at your option)
+## any later version.
+##
+## Octave 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 Octave; see the file COPYING.  If not, write to the Free
+## Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA
+## 02110-1301, USA.
+
+## -*- texinfo -*-
+## @deftypefn {Function File} {} hypergeometric_rnd (@var{n_size}, @var{m}, @var{t}, @var{n})
+## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} hypergeometric_rnd (@var{m}, @var{t}, @var{n}, @var{r}, @var{c})
+## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} hypergeometric_rnd (@var{m}, @var{t}, @var{n}, @var{sz})
+## Generate a row vector containing a random sample of size @var{n_size}
+## from the hypergeometric distribution with parameters @var{m}, @var{t},
+## and @var{n}.
+##
+## If  @var{r} and @var{c} are given create a matrix with @var{r} rows and
+## @var{c} columns. Or if @var{sz} is a vector, create a matrix of size
+## @var{sz}.
+##
+## The parameters @var{m}, @var{t}, and @var{n} must positive integers
+## with @var{m} and @var{n} not greater than @var{t}.
+## @end deftypefn
+
+## function rnd = hypergeometric_rnd (N, m, t, n)
+function rnd = hypergeometric_rnd (varargin)
+
+  rnd = hygernd (varargin{:});
+
+endfunction