Document: testu01
Title: TestU01: A Software Library in ANSI C for Emprirical Testing of Random Number Generators
Author:
 Pierre L’Ecuyer
 Richard Simard
Section: Science/Mathematics
Abstract:
 This document describes the software library TestU01, implemented in the ANSI C
 language, and offering a collection of utilities for the (empirical) statistical
 testing of uniform random number generators (RNG).
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 The library implements several types of generators in generic form, as well as
 many specific generators proposed in the literature or found in widely-used software.
 It provides general implementations of the classical statistical tests for random
 number generators, as well as several others proposed in the literature, and some
 original ones. These tests can be applied to the generators predefined in the library
 and to user-defined generators. Specific tests suites for either sequences of uniform
 random numbers in [0, 1] or bit sequences are also available. Basic tools for 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 interaction between
 a specific test and the structure of the point sets produced by a given family of RNGs.
 That is, for a given kind of test and a given class of RNGs, to determine how large should
 be the sample size of the test, as a function of the generator’s period length, before the
 generator starts to fail the test systematically.

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