Message-ID: <XFMail.051213141702.Ted.Harding@nessie.mcc.ac.uk>
Date: 2005-12-13T14:17:02Z
From: (Ted Harding)
Subject: Question
In-Reply-To: <439EBB52.80905@statistik.uni-dortmund.de>
On 13-Dec-05 Uwe Ligges wrote:
> Davia Cox wrote:
> [...]
>> My question is in order to run a true random sample,
>
> We have to disappoint you: Your computer cannot generate
> "true random samples".
At least on Linux (and probably most Unix) systems,
/dev/random must be a pretty good approximation (provided
you don't over-work it ... ).
Oh for the days of "shot noise"!
Best wishes,
Ted.
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