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## -*- texinfo -*-
## @deftypefn {Function File} {} poisson_rnd (@var{lambda}, @var{r}, @var{c})
## Return an @var{r} by @var{c} matrix of random samples from the
## Poisson distribution with parameter @var{lambda}, which must be a 
## scalar or of size @var{r} by @var{c}.
##
## If @var{r} and @var{c} are omitted, the size of the result matrix is
## the size of @var{lambda}.
## @end deftypefn

## Author: KH <Kurt.Hornik@wu-wien.ac.at>
## Description: Random deviates from the Poisson distribution

## Deprecated in version 3.0

function rnd = poisson_rnd (varargin)

  persistent warned = false;
  if (! warned)
    warned = true;
    warning ("Octave:deprecated-function",
             "poisson_rnd is obsolete and will be removed from a future version of Octave; please use poissrnd instead");
  endif

 rnd =  poissrnd (varargin{:});

endfunction