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Subject: Re: Randomness of numbers

Author: Vincent Lejeune

Date: 15:54:45 12/30/01

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On December 30, 2001 at 11:28:30, Russell Reagan wrote:

>On December 30, 2001 at 10:10:32, Sune Fischer wrote:
>
>>A good PRNG should pass all known statistical tests that can be run within a
>>reasonable timeframe.
>>
>>-S.
>
>What are some examples of known statistical tests. I am not very familiar with
>the statistics field of mathematics.

As I see at http://stat.fsu.edu/pub/diehard/ (the link Dieter Buerssner wrote)
there are at least 15 :

 HERE ARE YOUR CHOICES:
 1  Birthday Spacings
 2  Overlapping Permutations
 3  Ranks of 31x31 and 32x32 matrices
 4  Ranks of 6x8 Matrices
 5  Monkey Tests on 20-bit Words
 6  Monkey Tests OPSO,OQSO,DNA
 7  Count the 1`s in a Stream of Bytes
 8  Count the 1`s in Specific Bytes
 9  Parking Lot Test
10  Minimum Distance Test
11  Random Spheres Test
12  The Sqeeze Test
13  Overlapping Sums Test
14  Runs Test
15  The Craps Test



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