TESTS ON THE MULTIPLICATIVE CONGRUENCE METHOD OF GENERATING PSEUDO-RANDOM NUMBERS ON THE NAREC COMPUTER.

Abstract

This report describes the statistical tests and their results that were made on pseudo-random numbers generated by the 'multiplicative congruential method' on the NAREC computer. The first two million numbers of a particular generated sequence were tested using the frequency test, poker test, serial test, runs above and below the mean test, runs up and down test, and serial correlation test. The purpose of making such tests was to determine if the generated numbers were, in fact, random in their behavior. It was found that these numbers can be considered random for most common applications. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 02, 1965
Accession Number
AD0615313

Entities

People

  • Doris J. Ellis
  • Peter C. Ryan

Organizations

  • United States Naval Research Laboratory

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Computers
  • Computing Devices
  • Computing-Related Activities
  • Data Science
  • Frequency
  • Information Science
  • Interdisciplinary Science
  • Mathematics
  • Sequences
  • Statistical Tests

Readers

  • Aerospace Test and Evaluation
  • Parallel and Distributed Computing.
  • Statistical inference.