Screening tests of pseudorandom number generators on IBM PC's and compatibles

  • Authors:

  • John M. Gleason

  • Affiliations:

  • College of Business Administration, Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska

  • Venue:
  • WSC '85 Proceedings of the 17th conference on Winter simulation
  • Year:
  • 1985

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Abstract

Two of the more common tests for the statistical properties of pseudorandom number generators are the frequency test and the serial correlation test. This paper reports the results of frequency and serial correlation tests of random number generators available on two classes of microcomputers: the IBM PCs (the IBM PC, the IBM PC-XT, and the IBM portable) and the IBM PC compatible machines (the Compaq, the Olivetti/AT&T, the Sperry/Leading Edge, the ITT, and the IBM PC-AT). It is shown that the generators on the IBM compatibles perform better than the IBM generators.