Timeline for How different random number generators can be more similar than identical ones?
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| Jul 5, 2013 at 17:06 | vote | accept | Roman | ||
| Apr 29, 2011 at 13:30 | comment | added | Aniko | When you say "reference differences" are smaller than the "test differences", do you mean that as in -10 is smaller than a bunch of numbers in the -5 to 5 range, or do you mean that in absolute value? The latter would imply that half are below and half are above, because the "test differences" should be symmetrically distributed around 0 (without an absolute value). | |
| Apr 29, 2011 at 7:59 | comment | added | Roman | @Aniko, you are right, it is better to say that I have a random variable. I just wanted to abstract from the details. In my case the real numbers are created by different person (one "random number generator" in my case is a human). | |
| Apr 28, 2011 at 22:32 | comment | added | GaBorgulya | Also see stats.stackexchange.com/questions/30/…, stats.stackexchange.com/questions/40/… | |
| Apr 28, 2011 at 16:11 | comment | added | Aniko | Do you really mean "random number generators", i.e. numerical algorithms that aim to give observations with a known distribution (usually uniform(0,1)), or just "random variables", i.e. sources of data with unknown distributions. | |
| Apr 28, 2011 at 11:19 | answer | added | Nick Sabbe | timeline score: 2 | |
| Apr 28, 2011 at 10:55 | comment | added | GaBorgulya | The widely used random number generators today are of high quality that will not allow to distinguish between them using small samples. | |
| Apr 28, 2011 at 10:42 | history | asked | Roman | CC BY-SA 3.0 |