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Ching-Jing Kung1 and Hui-Chin Tang This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.2

1Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, Cheng Shiu University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan 833, R.O.C.
2Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, National Kaohsiung University of Applied Sciences, Kaohsiung, Taiwan 807, R.O.C.


 

Received: April 9, 2007
Accepted: October 4, 2008
Publication Date: September 1, 2009

Download Citation: ||https://doi.org/10.6180/jase.2009.12.3.16  


ABSTRACT


The criterion issue of spectral test in a linear congruential random number generator is considered. In this paper, we report on four variants of the normalized spectral test, measured both relative to either a theoretical or exact lower bound and aggregative to either a worst-case or average-case method. Computer exhaustive searches are conducted to evaluate and compare their statistical behaviors. It is shown that the spectral test with both theoretical lower bound and average-case aggregation criterion outperforms.


Keywords: Linear Congruential Generator, Spectral Test, Random Number


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