Re: [rng] Tests in -sampling

2018-07-26 Thread Rob Tompkins
> On Jul 25, 2018, at 9:48 PM, Gilles wrote: > > On Wed, 25 Jul 2018 21:08:57 -0400, Rob Tompkins wrote: >>> On Jul 24, 2018, at 9:13 PM, Rob Tompkins wrote: >>> >>> >>> On Jul 24, 2018, at 7:04 PM, Gilles wrote: Hi Rob. On Tue, 24 Jul 2018 18:33:40 -0400, Rob

Re: [rng] Tests in -sampling

2018-07-25 Thread Gilles
On Wed, 25 Jul 2018 21:08:57 -0400, Rob Tompkins wrote: On Jul 24, 2018, at 9:13 PM, Rob Tompkins wrote: On Jul 24, 2018, at 7:04 PM, Gilles wrote: Hi Rob. On Tue, 24 Jul 2018 18:33:40 -0400, Rob Tompkins wrote: I know that the tests will be necessarily non-deterministic, but we can

Re: [rng] Tests in -sampling

2018-07-25 Thread Rob Tompkins
> On Jul 24, 2018, at 9:13 PM, Rob Tompkins wrote: > > > >> On Jul 24, 2018, at 7:04 PM, Gilles wrote: >> >> Hi Rob. >> >> On Tue, 24 Jul 2018 18:33:40 -0400, Rob Tompkins wrote: >>> I know that the tests will be necessarily non-deterministic, but we >>> can at least get closer to having

Re: [rng] Tests in -sampling

2018-07-24 Thread Rob Tompkins
> On Jul 24, 2018, at 7:04 PM, Gilles wrote: > > Hi Rob. > > On Tue, 24 Jul 2018 18:33:40 -0400, Rob Tompkins wrote: >> I know that the tests will be necessarily non-deterministic, but we >> can at least get closer to having determinism by running the same test >> 1000 times and expecting

Re: [rng] Tests in -sampling

2018-07-24 Thread Gilles
Hi Rob. On Tue, 24 Jul 2018 18:33:40 -0400, Rob Tompkins wrote: I know that the tests will be necessarily non-deterministic, but we can at least get closer to having determinism by running the same test 1000 times and expecting some reasonable number of passes right? Could we use the

[rng] Tests in -sampling

2018-07-24 Thread Rob Tompkins
I know that the tests will be necessarily non-deterministic, but we can at least get closer to having determinism by running the same test 1000 times and expecting some reasonable number of passes right? Could we use the underlying distribution that we are testing to sort out this value? -Rob