ASA183
Wichman-Hill Random Number Generator


ASA183 is a FORTRAN77 library which implements a random number generator (RNG), by Wichman and Hill.

ASA183 is Applied Statistics Algorithm 183. Source code for many Applied Statistics Algorithms is available through STATLIB.

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ASA183 is available in a C version and a C++ version and a FORTRAN77 version and a FORTRAN90 version and a MATLAB version and a Python version.

Related Data and Programs:

HALTON, a FORTRAN90 library which computes elements of a Halton quasirandom sequence.

NORMAL, a FORTRAN77 library which computes elements of a sequence of pseudorandom normally distributed values.

RNGLIB, a FORTRAN77 library which implements a random number generator (RNG) with splitting facilities, allowing multiple independent streams to be computed, by L'Ecuyer and Cote.

UNIFORM, a FORTRAN77 library which computes elements of a sequence of pseudorandom uniformly distributed values.

VAN_DER_CORPUT, a FORTRAN90 library which computes elements of a van der Corput quasirandom sequence.

Author:

Original FORTRAN77 version by Brian Wichman and David Hill; This FORTRAN77 version by John Burkardt.

Reference:

  1. Pierre LEcuyer,
    Efficient and Portable Combined Random Number Generators,
    Communications of the ACM,
    Volume 31, Number 6, June 1988, pages 742-751.
  2. Brian Wichmann, David Hill,
    Algorithm AS 183: An Efficient and Portable Pseudo-random Number Generator,
    Applied Statistics,
    Volume 31, Number 2, 1982, pages 188-190.

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Last revised on 08 July 2008.