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RANDOM NUMBER GENERATION

Posted By: Fabrice Liardet
Date: Tuesday, 22 June 2010, at 7:31 p.m.

In Response To: RANDOM NUMBER GENERATION (Timothy Chow)

Thanks Timothy for the addendum, it makes the general picture clearer to me.

I am trying to get some layman grasp of those notions since I know (well, have once known) the information-theoretic part of them, but statistics has never been my pet branch of mathematics. Is there more I should know about the place of polynomial-time complexity in statistics ? I am trying to understand the modern versions of Occam's razor, like for instance the minimum description length principle.

A short answer or just with pointers is fine, I am not asking you for a complete crash course in statistics !

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  Ray Kershaw -- Monday, 21 June 2010, at 7:14 a.m.
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    Maik Stiebler -- Monday, 21 June 2010, at 12:51 p.m.
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    Sam Pottle -- Monday, 21 June 2010, at 4:37 p.m.
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    Jason Lee -- Monday, 21 June 2010, at 4:56 p.m.
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    Frank Berger -- Monday, 21 June 2010, at 9:48 p.m.
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    Timothy Chow -- Monday, 21 June 2010, at 11:46 p.m.
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    Fabrice Liardet -- Tuesday, 22 June 2010, at 11:51 a.m.
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      Timothy Chow -- Tuesday, 22 June 2010, at 5:24 p.m.
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        Fabrice Liardet -- Tuesday, 22 June 2010, at 7:31 p.m.