Generalized box-Müller method for generating q-Gaussian random deviates

IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

Volumn 53, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 4805-4810

  Thistleton, William J ^a   Marsh, John A ^a,b   Nelson, Kenric ^c   Tsallis, Constantino ^d,e  

^a SUNY POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Assured Information Security Inc   (United States)

^c Raytheon   (United States)

^d SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e CENTRO BRASILEIRO DE PESQUISAS FÍSICAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Entropy maximizing distribution; Q Gaussian distribution; Random number generation

Indexed keywords

BOLTZMANN; CORRELATED SYSTEMS; GAUSSIAN; GENERALIZED ENTROPIES; GENERALIZED SIMULATED ANNEALING; HEAVY-TAILED DISTRIBUTIONS; MAN-MADE SYSTEMS; MATLAB CODES; NATURAL EXTENSIONS; NON-EXTENSIVE STATISTICAL MECHANICS; NUMERICAL TOOLS; Q VALUES; Q-GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; SHANNON ENTROPIES;

ENTROPY; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; MATLAB; SIMULATED ANNEALING; STATISTICAL MECHANICS; TRELLIS CODES;

RANDOM NUMBER GENERATION;

EID: 55749105545     PISSN: 00189448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIT.2007.909173     Document Type: Article

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