Accession Number:
AD0707374
Title:
EVALUATION OF A MULTIPLICATIVE GENERATOR OF PSEUDO-RANDOM NUMBERS
Descriptive Note:
Technical research note
Corporate Author:
ARMY BEHAVOIR AND SYSTEMS RESEARCH LAB ARLINGTON VA
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Report Date:
1969-09-01
Pagination or Media Count:
29.0
Abstract:
The present study reports on the development and testing of a pseudo- random number generator which would be able to rapidly supply the SIMPO-I entity models with numbers meeting essential tests for random qualities. The generator developed by BESRL is a power residue or multiplicative generator, the simplest of the many generators based on the linear congruential method. In addition to an acceptable generator, the work accomplished resulted in a compilation of statistical tests which have wider application for evaluating generators used on other computer systems. The tests are described, and essential mathematical formulations are presented.
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Subject Categories:
- Statistics and Probability