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Algorithm 334: Normal random deviates
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Communications of the ACM archive
Volume 11 ,  Issue 7  (July 1968) table of contents
Page: 498  
Year of Publication: 1968
ISSN:0001-0782
Author
James R. Bell  Stanford Research Institute, Menlo Park, CA
Publisher
ACM  New York, NY, USA
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Box, G., AND MULLER, M. A note on the generation of normal deviates. Ann. Math. Slat. 28, (1958), 610.
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Mervin E. Muller, A Comparison of Methods for Generating Normal Deviates on Digital Computers, Journal of the ACM (JACM), v.6 n.3, p.376-383, July 1959  [doi>10.1145/320986.320992]
 
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VON NEUMANN, J. Various techniques used in connection with random digits. In Nat. Bur. of Standards Appl. Math. Ser. 12, 1959, p. 36.
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M. C. Pike, Algorithm 267: random normal deviate [G5], Communications of the ACM, v.8 n.10, p.606, Oct. 1965  [doi>10.1145/365628.365649]

CITED BY  4
Richard P. Brent, Algorithm 488: A Gaussian pseudo-random number generator, Communications of the ACM, v.17 n.12, p.704-706, Dec 1974
W. H. Payne, Normal Random Numbers: Using Machine Analysis to Choose the Best Algorithm, ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software (TOMS), v.3 n.4, p.346-358, Dec. 1977
Rex L. Hurst , Robert E. Knop, Algorithm 425: generation of random correlated normal variables [G5], Communications of the ACM, v.15 n.5, p.355-357, May 1972
David B. Thomas , Wayne Luk , Philip H.W. Leong , John D. Villasenor, Gaussian random number generators, ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), v.39 n.4, p.11-es, 2007

INDEX TERMS

Keywords:
frequency distribution, normal deviates, normal distribution, probability distribution, random, random number, random number generator, simulation

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