Effective random seeding of random number generators
β Scribed by Howard L. Kaplan
- Book ID
- 120727896
- Publisher
- Psychonomic Society Publications
- Year
- 1981
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 997 KB
- Volume
- 13
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1554-351X
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π SIMILAR VOLUMES
A commonly used uniform random-number generator is examined in light of a genetic-simulation problem. Although this generator is often useful, it proves defective in this case. The author suggests that any proposed generator be checked for the properties needed by the simulation problem at hand.
The author discusses some promising new random number generators, as well as formulates the mathematical basis that makes them random variables in the same sense as more familiar ones in probability and statistics, emphasizing his view that randomness exists only in the sense of mathematics. He disc