On a combination method of VDR and patchwork for generating uniform random points on a unit sphere

DOI10.1016/j.jmva.2004.08.012zbMath1072.11059OpenAlexW2075118230MaRDI QIDQ558050

Jianyong Qiao, Sumit K. Garg

Publication date: 30 June 2005

Published in: Journal of Multivariate Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmva.2004.08.012

zbMATH Keywords

random points

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Random number generation in numerical analysis (65C10) Pseudo-random numbers; Monte Carlo methods (11K45)

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