On Wed, 05 Nov 2003 19:59:28 -0800, Glen wrote: > Some time within the last year, I read in a text (or possibly a paper, but > I am fairly confident it was in a text) discussing random numbers what > random number generator Excel uses, as well as some comments on its > attributes (some bad, some less so). > > Recently I wanted to mention the discussion in the book in some notes I > was writing. > > I thought I knew where I had seen it, but rereading the text in question, > it doesn't seem to mention Excel at all. > > Does anyone have a clue what book this might have been in? > > Glen
Here are some links: www.stat.uni-muenchen.de/~knuesel/elv/excelxp.pdf www.iro.umontreal.ca/~lecuyer/ myftp/papers/wsc01rng.pdf http://www.elsevier.com/gej-ng/10/15/38/37/25/27/article.pdf http://www.elsevier.com/gej-ng/10/15/38/85/51/28/abstract.html (For the above you will need an account to gain access to the full article) HTH, Marc Schwartz . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
