Bad Subsequences of Well-Known Linear Congruential Pseudorandom Number Generators

ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 61-70

  Entacher, Karl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

Author keywords

Lattice structure; Linear congruential generator; Parallel pseudorandom number generator; Random number generation; Spectral test; Stochastic simulation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; LINEAR CONTROL SYSTEMS; PROBABILITY; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); STOCHASTIC PROGRAMMING; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

LATTICE STRUCTURE; LINEAR CONGRUENTIAL GENERATORS (LCG); STOCHASTIC SIMULATION;

RANDOM NUMBER GENERATION;

EID: 0031599234     PISSN: 10493301     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/272991.273009     Document Type: Conference Paper

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