[SciPy-Dev] User Acceptance Testing

[josef.pktd at gmail.com]

On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 11:16 AM, Robert Kern <robert.kern at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 08:02,  <josef.pktd at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> And as an acceptance
>> test, I have never heard of anyone running numpy.random through the
>> randomness test suites http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diehard_tests .
>
> The DIEHARD tests are for uniform RNGs. For that, we use the original
> Mersenne Twister code directly, and that has already been thoroughly
> tested by DIEHARD and other such suites.

Thanks, good to hear, I didn't know the implementation in numpy has
been tested.

I'm pretty confident about the transformed random variables that are
used in scipy.stats.distributions, since I have tortured them enough,
I think.

Josef

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