Joseph Wakeling wrote:
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John D Lamb wrote:
There is nothing to stop you using two random number generators, though
you probably only need one. If you use two random number generators with
the same seed and call them equally often then the results will be
strongly correlated. If you use just one they will be nearly
uncorrelated. So I use one unless there's a good reason to do otherwise.
Is there any means of selecting two seeds so as to guard against this,
or will any two different seeds do the job as well as can be?
There's nothing in GSL. In practice, this kind of problem ought to be
unusual. The kind of place it might come up is where you regularly
gernerate a pair of numbers, one from a uniform distribution, the other
from an exponential. If you use separate gsl_rng objects for these but
use the same seed for both, then you'll get highly correlated random
variates. I would use a single gsl_rng but you could use two gsl_rng
objects with different seeds as long as you weren't worried about nth
order autocorrletaion effects where n is probably very large. Using
different methods of generating random numbers would also work.
JDL
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