Initially I was using poissrnd command to generate Poisson distributed numbers but I had no info on how to make them 'arrive' in my code. So I decided to generate the inter-arrival times. I do that as below.
t=exprnd(1/0.1);
for i=1:5
t=t+exprnd(1/0.1);
end
%t is like 31.3654 47.1014 72.0024 77.5162 102.3227 104.5794
%Even if this way of producing arrival times is wrong, still my question remains the same
All is ok to see but how can I actually use these times in my code to say that yes, arrival number 1 occuring at 31.3654 time, then arrival number 2 at 47.1014 time,etc. As ultimately I have to take an arrival, do some action, then receive another call. I cannot use a loop to increment through such varying numbers (even if i use ceil()).
So, what do people mean when they say they generated arrivals using Poisson distbn. How do they make use of the Posson distbn.? Because, the code won't know if a number is from Poisson or Rand distbn? I am tired of thinking an answer to this question. Please suggest something.
