• The Marsaglia polar method is a pseudo-random number sampling method for generating a pair of independent standard normal random variables. Standard normal...
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  • mix." Marsaglia died from a heart attack on February 15, 2011, in Tallahassee. Diehard tests Linear congruential generator Marsaglia polar method Multiply-with-carry...
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    than the two most commonly used methods of generating normally distributed random numbers, the Marsaglia polar method and the Box–Muller transform, which...
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    Marsaglia polar method is a modification of the Box–Muller method which does not require computation of the sine and cosine functions. In this method...
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    Box-Muller method. """ function boxmullersample(n,μ,σ) μ .+ σ*boxmullersample(cld(n,2))[1:n]; end Inverse transform sampling Marsaglia polar method, similar...
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  • segments For sampling from a normal distribution: Box–Muller transform Marsaglia polar method Convolution random number generator — generates a random variable...
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  • renewal process Markov's inequality Markovian arrival processes Marsaglia polar method Martingale (probability theory) Martingale difference sequence Martingale...
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  • benchmarks should feature new parallel-aware algorithmic and software methods, genericness and architecture neutrality, easy verifiability of correctness...
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  • sequentially For generating a normal distribution: Box–Muller transform Marsaglia polar method For generating a Poisson distribution: See Poisson distribution#Generating...
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    ⁠-sphere (that is, the surface of the unit ⁠ n {\displaystyle n} ⁠-ball), Marsaglia (1972) gives the following algorithm. Generate an ⁠ n {\displaystyle n}...
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