RANDGAMMA RANDGAMMA Generate Gamma-Distributed Random Variable Usage Generates random variables with a gamma distribution. The general syntax for its use is y = randgamma(a,r), where a and r are vectors describing the parameters of the gamma distribution. Roughly speaking, if a is the mean time between changes of a Poisson random process, and we wait for the r change, the resulting wait time is Gamma distributed with parameters a and r.