function poisson_sample_test ( )

%*****************************************************************************80
%
%% POISSON_SAMPLE_TEST tests POISSON_SAMPLE.
%
%  Licensing:
%
%    This code is distributed under the GNU LGPL license.
%
%  Modified:
%
%    27 March 2016
%
%  Author:
%
%    John Burkardt
%
  nsample = 1000;
  seed = 123456789;

  fprintf ( 1, '\n' );
  fprintf ( 1, 'POISSON_SAMPLE_TEST\n' );
  fprintf ( 1, '  POISSON_MEAN computes the Poisson mean;\n' );
  fprintf ( 1, '  POISSON_SAMPLE samples the Poisson distribution;\n' );
  fprintf ( 1, '  POISSON_VARIANCE computes the Poisson variance.\n' );

  a = 10.0;

  check = poisson_check ( a );

  if ( ~ check );
    fprintf ( 1, '\n' );
    fprintf ( 1, 'POISSON_SAMPLE_TEST - Fatal error!\n' );
    fprintf ( 1, '  The parameters are not legal.\n' );
    return
  end

  mean = poisson_mean ( a );
  variance = poisson_variance ( a );

  fprintf ( 1, '\n' );
  fprintf ( 1, '  PDF parameter A =             %14g\n', a );
  fprintf ( 1, '  PDF mean =                    %14g\n', mean );
  fprintf ( 1, '  PDF variance =                %14g\n', variance );

  for i = 1 : nsample
    [ x(i), seed ] = poisson_sample ( a, seed );
  end

  mean = i4vec_mean ( nsample, x );
  variance = i4vec_variance ( nsample, x );
  xmax = max ( x(1:nsample) );
  xmin = min ( x(1:nsample) );

  fprintf ( 1, '\n' );
  fprintf ( 1, '  Sample size =     %6d\n', nsample );
  fprintf ( 1, '  Sample mean =     %14g\n', mean );
  fprintf ( 1, '  Sample variance = %14g\n', variance );
  fprintf ( 1, '  Sample maximum =  %6d\n', xmax );
  fprintf ( 1, '  Sample minimum =  %6d\n', xmin );

  return
end
