Function to return poisson random variable

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Moh. Saadat
Moh. Saadat on 17 Dec 2019
Edited: Ridwan Alam on 17 Dec 2019
Hi,
What is the (Is there any) MATLAB function to return a poisson random variable that is NOT NECESSARILY an integer? I know about poissrnd(), but apparently this function only returns integers inspite of any given input of lambda values.
e.g.
poissrnd(5.1)
ans =
7

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Ridwan Alam
Ridwan Alam on 17 Dec 2019
Edited: Ridwan Alam on 17 Dec 2019
random('Poisson',lambda)

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