TY - JOUR AU - Leong, Philip H. W. AU - Zhang, Ganglie AU - Lee, Dong-U AU - Luk, Wayne AU - Villasenor, John PY - 2005/02/08 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - A Comment on the Implementation of the Ziggurat Method JF - Journal of Statistical Software JA - J. Stat. Soft. VL - 12 IS - 7 SE - Articles DO - 10.18637/jss.v012.i07 UR - https://www.jstatsoft.org/index.php/jss/article/view/v012i07 SP - 1 - 4 AB - We show that the short period of the uniform random number generator in the published implementation of Marsaglia and Tsang's Ziggurat method for generating random deviates can lead to poor distributions. Changing the uniform random number generator used in its implementation fixes this issue. ER -