David Hobby wrote:
>
> Julia Thompson wrote:
> >
> > David Hobby wrote:
> > >
> > > A SAMPLE PAGE FROM THE TABLE OF NORMAL DEVIATES
> > >
>
> >
> > Ooo, look, pretty numbers!
> >
> > Kind of peaceful, actually.
> >
> > If you're not going to post more to the list, then please send me
> > another 10 pages to the e-mail address I'm posting from here!
>
> I found these online, by doing a Google search for
> "tables of random numbers" or somesuch. That came from a page
> about an early table, published by the Rand Corporation. (It
> went on for awhile about how they produced their "random"
> numbers, and then did lots of statistical tests to check that
> they really were random. Interesting, sort of.)
> They had the standard kind of random digits too, but
> when I saw what they called their values of the standard
> normal random variable, I had to go for the "normal deviates".
Sounds good. I think all my books with tables are packed -- I *know*
that Vega's Logarithms went into a box, and I'm pretty sure my CRC math
formulas & tables book is in a box, as well.
So if I go through numerical withdrawal, just do a Google search?
Thanks!
Julia
