Random Numbers

RANDOMOPT Procedure (PV-WAVE Advantage)—Retrieves uniform (0, 1) multiplicative, congruential pseudorandom-number generator.

RANDOM_TABLE Procedure (PV-WAVE Advantage)—Sets or retrieves the current table used in either the shuffled or GFSR random number generator.

RANDOM Function (PV-WAVE Advantage)—Generates pseudorandom numbers.

RANDOM_NPP Function (PV-WAVE Advantage)—Generates pseudorandom numbers from a nonhomo-geneous Poisson proces.

RANDOM_ORDER Function (PV-WAVE Advantage)—Generates pseudorandom order statistics from a uniform (0, 1) distribution, or optionally from a standard normal distribution.

RAND_TABLE_2WAY Function (PV-WAVE Advantage)—Generates a pseudorandom two-way table.

RAND_ORTH_MAT Function (PV-WAVE Advantage)—Generates a pseudorandom orthogonal matrix or a correlation matrix.

RANDOM_SAMPLE Function (PV-WAVE Advantage)—Generates a simple pseudorandom sample from a finite population.

RAND_FROM_DATA Function (PV-WAVE Advantage)—Generates pseudorandom numbers from a multivariate distribution determined from a given sample.

CONT_TABLE Procedure (PV-WAVE Advantage)—Sets up table to generate pseudorandom numbers from a general continuous distribution.

RAND_GEN_CONT Function (PV-WAVE Advantage)—Generates pseudorandom numbers from a general continuous distribution.

DISCR_TABLE Function (PV-WAVE Advantage)—Sets up table to generate pseudorandom numbers from a general discrete distribution.

RAND_GEN_DISCR Function (PV-WAVE Advantage)—Generates pseudorandom numbers from a general discrete distribution using an alias method or optionally a table lookup method.

Stochastic Processes

RANDOM_ARMA Function (PV-WAVE Advantage)—Generate pseudorandom ARMA process numbers.

Low-discrepancy Sequences

FAURE_INIT Function (PV-WAVE Advantage)—Initializes the structure used for computing a shuffled Faure sequence.

FAURE_NEXT_PT Function (PV-WAVE Advantage)—Generates a shuffled Faure sequence.

Mersenne Twister Generator

RANDOM_MT32_INIT Procedure (PV-WAVE Advantage)—Initializes the 32-bit Mersenne Twister generator using an array.

RANDOM_MT64_INIT Procedure (PV-WAVE Advantage)—Initializes the 64-bit Mersenne Twister generator using an array.