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Subject: Re: Randomness of numbers

Author: Vincent Lejeune

Date: 00:52:21 12/30/01

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I heard a function called "chi-squared" to calculate the distribution of random
numbers :

a search on altavista :
http://www.altavista.com/sites/search/web?q=%2Bchi+%2Bsquare+%2BRandom&pg=q&kl=XX&search=Search

may be this one is interresting :
http://bmj.com/collections/statsbk/8.shtml



On December 30, 2001 at 02:29:06, Russell Reagan wrote:

>Are there any methods of testing a sequence of "random" numbers to determine
>their degree of randomness, or to determine how good a random number generation
>function is? I vaguely recall hearing about some methods before, but I can't
>remember any.
>
>Russell



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