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Efficient implementation of a linear complexity measure of binary sequences

For a implementation of testing the quality of random number generators I implemented the NIST test suite in Mathematica based on the nice workbook by Ilja Gerhardt. However I took up the challenge ...
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1answer
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1D Random Walk with Excluded Sites and Variable Time-Step

Here is the physical problem I would like to simulate: Consider the following variations to the 1d random walk: allow for certain, random sites to be excluded with probability 1/2. allow for the ...
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4answers
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Efficiently generating n-D Gaussian random fields

I am interested in an efficient code to generate an $n$-D Gaussian random field (sometimes called processes in other fields of research), which has applications in cosmology. I wrote the following ...
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Are there rules of thumb for knowing when RandomVariate is more efficient than RandomReal?

Please consider the following: From a fresh Mathematica kernel, RandomVariate is more efficient for NormalDistribution but ...