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A Comment on the Implementation of the Ziggurat Method

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  • Leong, Philip H. W.
  • Zhang, Ganglie
  • Lee, Dong-U
  • Luk, Wayne
  • Villasenor, John

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We show that the short period of the uniform random number generator in the published implementation of Marsaglia and Tsang's Ziggurat method for generating random deviates can lead to poor distributions. Changing the uniform random number generator used in its implementation fixes this issue.

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  • Leong, Philip H. W. & Zhang, Ganglie & Lee, Dong-U & Luk, Wayne & Villasenor, John, 2005. "A Comment on the Implementation of the Ziggurat Method," Journal of Statistical Software, Foundation for Open Access Statistics, vol. 12(i07).
    • Handle: RePEc:jss:jstsof:v:012:i07
    DOI: http://hdl.handle.net/10.18637/jss.v012.i07
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    1. Nguyen Nguyet & Xu Linlin & Ökten Giray, 2018. "A quasi-Monte Carlo implementation of the ziggurat method," Monte Carlo Methods and Applications, De Gruyter, vol. 24(2), pages 93-99, June.
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    3. Yiran Chen & Giray Ökten, 2022. "A goodness-of-fit test for copulas based on the collision test," Statistical Papers, Springer, vol. 63(5), pages 1369-1385, October.

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