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A number of statistical tests of randomness have been developed as
tests for random number generators (see Knuth).
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Uniform distribution
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Serial correlations
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Run
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Collision
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Chi squared
Any test for which it is possible to calculate analytically what a truly
random distribution would produce can be used.
Paul Coddington, Northeast Parallel Architectures Center at Syracuse University, paulc@npac.syr.edu