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It's also just a fancy name for generating a pseudo-random number from a Uniform distribution in [0,1], and reading off the x-axis of the CDF.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverse_transform_sampling
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It's also just a fancy name for generating a pseudo-random number from a Uniform distribution in [0,1], and reading off the x-axis of the CDF.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverse_transform_sampling