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TestU01 is a software library, implemented in the ANSI C language, and
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offering a collection of utilities for the empirical statistical testing
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of uniform random number generators.
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The library implements several types of random number generators in generic
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form, as well as many specific generators proposed in the literature or
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found in widely-used software. It provides general implementations of the
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classical statistical tests for random number generators, as well as several
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others proposed in the literature, and some original ones. These tests can
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be applied to the generators predefined in the library and to user-defined
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generators. Specific tests suites for either sequences of uniform random
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numbers in [0,1] or bit sequences are also available. Basic tools for
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plotting vectors of points produced by generators are provided as well.
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Additional software permits one to perform systematic studies of the
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interaction between a specific test and the structure of the point sets
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produced by a given family of random number generators. That is, for a given
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kind of test and a given class of random number generators, to determine how
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large should be the sample size of the test, as a function of the generator's
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period length, before the generator starts to fail the test systematically.
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WWW: http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~simardr/testu01/tu01.html
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