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Reliability of RAND() function
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29/06/2000 16:24:33
Rick Kloser
University of St. Francis
Joliet, Illinois, United States
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Rick,

You could run your own Chi-Square test on the results to see if you are happy with the data. Be warned though that using -1 as the seed may result in less psuedorandom numbers because it's seeded from the system clock and I don't know if it's guaranteed to be a decent prime seed number.

>Is anyone aware of reliability checks of FoxPro's RAND() function to determine whether it adequately
>simulates random numbers on the interval (0,1)? Thanks.
df (was a 10 time MVP)

df FoxPro website
FoxPro Wiki site online, editable knowledgebase
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