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## -*- texinfo -*-
## @deftypefn {Function File} {} geometric_rnd (@var{p}, @var{r}, @var{c})
## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} geometric_rnd (@var{p}, @var{sz})
## Return an @var{r} by @var{c} matrix of random samples from the
## geometric distribution with parameter @var{p}, which must be a scalar
## or of size @var{r} by @var{c}.
##
## 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}.
## @end deftypefn

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

## Deprecated in version 3.0

function rnd = geometric_rnd (varargin)

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             "geometric_rnd is obsolete and will be removed from a future version of Octave; please use geornd instead");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

 rnd =  geornd (varargin{:});

endfunction