A Comment on the Implementation of the Ziggurat Method

We show that the short period of the uniform random number generator in the published implementation of Marsaglia and Tsang's Ziggurat method for generating random deviates can lead to poor distributions. Changing the uniform random number generator used in its implementation fixes this issue.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Philip H. W. Leong, Ganglie Zhang, Dong-U Lee, Wayne Luk, John Villasenor
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Foundation for Open Access Statistics 2005-02-01
Series:Journal of Statistical Software
Online Access:http://www.jstatsoft.org/index.php/jss/article/view/1433