Geometric random inner products: A family of tests for random number generators

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 67, Issue 1 2, 2003, Pages 161131-161137

  Tu, Shu Ju ^a   Fischbach, Ephraim ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; RANDOM PROCESSES; VECTORS;

N-DIMENSIONALITY;

RANDOM NUMBER GENERATION;

EID: 0038056067     PISSN: 1063651X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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