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- From: mglacy@lamar.ColoState.EDU
- Newsgroups: sci.math.stat
- Subject: Another RNG question
- Message-ID: <Oct16.195957.45264@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>
- Date: 16 Oct 92 19:59:57 GMT
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- Organization: Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523
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- I've been trying out a new RNG code. It appears to yield a very
- nice random u.r.v (0,1). (At least it looks fine under k-s tests,
- which is sufficient for my purposes.) However, when I use it to
- generate uniformly distributed random *integers*, it produces lousy
- results. I've just been multiplying each random real by
- some N, and then truncating the result to an integer. To make
- the range be 1..N, I've then been adding 1 to the truncated result.
-
- Any suggestions on why might be going wrong here? Is this to
- be expected?
-
- Thanks.
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