Other Directory Sites: SeekWonder | Directory Owners Forum
The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Fri Aug 21 1998 - 17:20:13 ADT
Mok-Kong Shen (mok-kong.shen@stud.uni-muenchen.de)
Wed, 08 Jul 1998 10:09:29 +0100
Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> My big question is this: are there tools for taking a set of random
> numbers dispersed according to a non-uniform distribution, like a
> poisson or normal distribution, and turning them into a set of random
> numbers over a uniform distribution? Given such tools, timing
> intervals between the geiger counter ticks is probably safe --
> otherwise, it may skew the results subtly.
If you have a (really) uniform distribution in [0,1) and add to
it another arbitrary distribution in [0,1) and take mod 1, the result
is a uniform distribution. This sounds strange but is true.
M. K. Shen
The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Fri Aug 21 1998 - 17:20:13 ADT