ASA183
Wichman-Hill Random Number Generator

ASA183 is a MATLAB library which implements a pseudorandom number generator, by Wichman and Hill.

ASA183 is Applied Statistics Algorithm 183. Source code for many Applied Statistics Algorithms is available through STATLIB.

Licensing:

The computer code and data files described and made available on this web page are distributed under the GNU LGPL license.

Languages:

ASA183 is available in a C version and a C++ version and a FORTRAN77 version and a FORTRAN90 version and a MATLAB version

Related Data and Programs:

HALTON, a MATLAB library which computes elements of a Halton quasirandom sequence.

MATLAB_RANDOM, MATLAB programs which illustrate the use of Matlab's random number generators.

NORMAL, a MATLAB library which computes elements of a sequence of pseudorandom normally distributed values.

UNIFORM, a MATLAB library which computes elements of a sequence of pseudorandom uniformly distributed values.

VAN_DER_CORPUT, a MATLAB library which computes elements of a van der Corput quasirandom sequence.

Author:

Original FORTRAN77 version by Brian Wichman and David Hill; Matlab version by John Burkardt.

Reference:

1. Pierre LEcuyer,
   Efficient and Portable Combined Random Number Generators,
   Communications of the ACM,
   Volume 31, Number 6, June 1988, pages 742-751.
2. Brian Wichmann, David Hill,
   Algorithm AS 183: An Efficient and Portable Pseudo-random Number Generator,
   Applied Statistics,
   Volume 31, Number 2, 1982, pages 188-190.

Source Code:

• r8_random.m, returns a pseudorandom number between 0 and 1.
• r8_uni.m, returns a pseudorandom number between 0 and 1.
• timestamp.m, prints out the current YMDHMS date as a timestamp.

Examples and Tests:

• asa183_test.m, calls all the tests.
• asa183_test_output.txt, the output file.
• asa183_test01.m, tests R8_RANDOM.
• asa183_test02.m, tests R8_RANDOM.
• asa183_test03.m, tests R8_RANDOM.
• asa183_test04.m, tests R8_UNI.
• asa183_test05.m, tests R8_UNI.
• asa183_test06.m, tests R8_UNI.

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