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- Newsgroups: sci.math.stat
- Path: sparky!uunet!caen!destroyer!gumby!news
- From: scott@mickey.acs.wmich.edu (Julie Scott)
- Subject: Re: random number generator
- Sender: news@gumby.cc.wmich.edu (USENET News System)
- Organization: Western Michigan University Academic Computing Services
- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 15:55:28 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Jul29.155528.11593@gumby.cc.wmich.edu>
- References: <1992Jul29.142741.18404@cbfsb.cb.att.com>
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- > Alright, what the faq is a FAQ? Would you guys please write in English
- > and not in acronyms? I've been following this thread with great
- > anticipation, because I'd like to have access to a good random number
- > generator. But it's becoming difficult to figure out what you're
- talking
- > about, with all the alphabet soup. Please remember that not all who
- > read this newsgroup are statisticians. Give the rest of us poor slobs
- > a break, huh?
- >
- > Tony
-
- FAQ stands for Frequently Asked Questions and it is not a statistical
- term. It is a "net" term that appears frequently in newsgroups and other
- computer fasciliated discussions.
-
- Julie
- scott@mickey.acs.wmich.edu
-