Some test results on the SIMSCRIPT II. 5 and SIMPL/1 pseudorandom number generators

  • Authors:

  • George S. Fishman

  • Affiliations:

  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGSIM Simulation Digest
  • Year:
  • 1976

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Abstract

This paper presents results of applying the runs up and down test, the chi-square goodness-of-fit test and the serial test to streams of pseudo-random number generators implemented in the IBM version of SIMSCRIPT II.5, in SIMPL/1 and using their default seeds. Although this limited testing prevents general conclusions, the results presented here do identify several areas of concern. Because of the limited publication of such test information in the learned literature, it is regrettably not possible to offer a completely acceptable method of removing these concerns.