George Marsaglia

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George Marsaglia is a mathematician and computer scientist. He is best known for developing the Diehard tests of randomness, a series of tests which determine whether or not a sequence of numbers do have the statistical properties that could be expected from a random sequence. In 1995 he published a CD-ROM of random numbers which included the afore mentioned tests. He also developed the polar-method to generate normally distributed random numbers. He was professor of statistics at Florida State University.

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• George Marsaglia – Faculty page at Florida State University, Department of Statistics.