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Article: The ziggurat method for generating random variables

TitleThe ziggurat method for generating random variables
Authors
Marsaglia, GTsang, WW
Issue Date2000
PublisherUniversity of California at Los Angeles, Department of Statistics. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.jstatsoft.org/
Citation
Journal Of Statistical Software, 2000, v. 5, p. 1-7 How to Cite?
AbstractWe provide a new version of our ziggurat method for generating a random variable from a given decreasing density. It is faster and simpler than the original, and will produce, for example, normal or exponential variates at the rate of 15 million per second with a C version on a 400MHz PC. It uses two tables, integers ki and reals wi. Some 99% of the time, the required x is produced by: Generate a random 32-bit integer j and let i be the index formed from the rightmost 8 bits of j. If j < ki return x = j x wi. We illustrate with C code that provides for inline generation of both normal and exponential variables, with a short procedure for setting up the necessary tables.
Persistent Identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/88916
ISSN
1548-7660
2023 Impact Factor: 5.4
2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 2.709
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