Stockholm Bioinformatics Center, SBC

7 June 2000, Per Kraulis

Seminar notes: Random numbers

1. Who needs random numbers?
2. How obtain random numbers?
3. Random number generators (RNGs)
4. Distributions of random values
5. A simple RNG: linear congruential
6. Some examples of RNGs
7. Python implementation: module crng
8. Plot of gamma distribution, order=8
9. Plot of gamma distribution, order=16
10. Plot of gamma distribution, order=24