Function to return poisson random variable

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

Answer 1

[Ridwan Alam]

random('Poisson',lambda)