Microsoft Excel's `Not the Wichmann-Hill' random number generators

DOI10.1016/j.csda.2008.03.006zbMath1452.62016OpenAlexW2100077262MaRDI QIDQ1023808

B. D. McCullough

Publication date: 16 June 2009

Published in: Computational Statistics and Data Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csda.2008.03.006

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Computational methods for problems pertaining to statistics (62-08) Software, source code, etc. for problems pertaining to statistics (62-04) Random number generation in numerical analysis (65C10)

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Uses Software

• Excel
• TestU01
• Diehard
• AS 183

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• TestU01

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