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## -*- texinfo -*-
## @deftypefn {Function File} {} pascal_rnd (@var{n}, @var{p}, @var{r}, @var{c})
## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} pascal_rnd (@var{n}, @var{p}, @var{sz})
## Return an @var{r} by @var{c} matrix of random samples from the Pascal
## (negative binomial) distribution with parameters @var{n} and @var{p}.
## Both @var{n} and @var{p} must be 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 common size of @var{n} and @var{p}. 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 Pascal distribution

## Deprecated in version 3.0

function rnd = pascal_rnd (varargin)

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             "pascal_rnd is obsolete and will be removed from a future version of Octave; please use nbinrnd instead");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

  rnd = nbinrnd (varargin{:});

endfunction