Generally, if you're testing something that is supposed to be truly
random (like shuffle and rand-elt), you do a large sample and make
sure the distribution of results is truly (close to) uniform.
-SS
On Aug 7, 9:17 pm, Sean Devlin francoisdev...@gmail.com wrote:
Ok, I need some help. I'm
The problem is how do you define close to uniform? All I remember my
signals noise classes is that this really hard, and Zed Shaw's rant
has convinced me that in order to do this right it takes time.
I'm going to punt on the issue for now.
Quick, is there a statistician in the house?
Sean
On Aug 7, 6:17 pm, Sean Devlin francoisdev...@gmail.com wrote:
Ok, I need some help. I'm writing some tests for c.c.seq-utils, and I
ran into a problem defining a test for both shuffle and rand-elt.
Does anyone here have any experience writing tests for random
functions? Am I going to need
