Question
On Tue, 13 Dec 2005 Ted.Harding at nessie.mcc.ac.uk wrote:
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 ... ).
See library(accuracy) ?trueRandom (for some definition of 'true').
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