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.
Object oriented random number generators
โ Scribed by Joseph A. Fisher
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1993
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 269 KB
- Volume
- 25
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0360-8352
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