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  1. Newsgroups: sci.math.stat
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!wupost!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!uchinews!galton.uchicago.edu!thisted
  3. From: thisted@galton.uchicago.edu (Ronald A. Thisted)
  4. Subject: Re: random number generator
  5. Message-ID: <1992Jul27.152841.10170@midway.uchicago.edu>
  6. Keywords: pseudo-random, C , uniform, normal
  7. Sender: news@uchinews.uchicago.edu (News System)
  8. Organization: Dept of Statistics, Univ of Chicago
  9. References: <1992Jul27.103659.11820@kth.se>
  10. Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 15:28:41 GMT
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  13. In article <1992Jul27.103659.11820@kth.se> md87-mpe@hemul.nada.kth.se (Magnus Pettersson) writes:
  14.  [regarding a reference to a classic (and somewhat dangerous)
  15.  algorithm for generating gaussian random variates]
  16.  
  17. >3. G.E.P.Box and M.E.Mueller
  18.  
  19. For everyone's information, that's Mervin Muller -- no e, no umlaut.
  20.  
  21. Ron Thisted
  22. Department of Statistics/The University of Chicago
  23. thisted@galton.uchicago.edu
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