T.UNIFORM

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00000610: 4E 45 52 41 54 45 53 2E  0D 0D 20 20 D7 45 20 50  |NERATES...  .E P|
00000620: 52 4F 50 4F 53 45 20 54  4F 20 54 45 53 54 20 54  |ROPOSE TO TEST T|
00000630: 48 49 53 20 41 53 20 46  4F 4C 4C 4F 57 53 3A 0D  |HIS AS FOLLOWS:.|
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000006A0: 46 20 57 45 20 44 45 43  49 44 45 20 54 4F 20 55  |F WE DECIDE TO U|
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000007B0: 44 4F 4D 20 4E 55 4D 42  45 52 20 47 45 4E 45 52  |DOM NUMBER GENER|
000007C0: 41 54 4F 52 20 49 53 20  49 4E 20 46 41 43 54 0D  |ATOR IS IN FACT.|
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000007E0: 55 4E 54 53 20 46 4F 52  20 45 41 43 48 20 4F 46  |UNTS FOR EACH OF|
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00000820: 54 41 54 49 53 54 49 43  41 4C 20 54 45 53 54 20  |TATISTICAL TEST |
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00000840: 0D 48 59 50 4F 54 48 45  53 49 53 20 54 48 41 54  |.HYPOTHESIS THAT|
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00000860: 53 20 46 49 4C 4C 0D 0D  55 4E 49 46 4F 52 4D 4C  |S FILL..UNIFORML|
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00000950: 49 4C 49 54 59 20 43 4C  4F 53 45 20 54 4F 20 30  |ILITY CLOSE TO 0|
00000960: 20 28 53 41 59 20 4C 45  53 53 20 54 48 41 4E 0D  | (SAY LESS THAN.|
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00000990: 20 54 48 41 54 0D 0D 54  48 45 20 48 59 50 4F 54  | THAT..THE HYPOT|
000009A0: 48 45 53 49 53 20 54 48  41 54 20 54 48 45 20 44  |HESIS THAT THE D|
000009B0: 49 53 54 52 49 42 55 54  49 4F 4E 0D 0D 49 53 20  |ISTRIBUTION..IS |
000009C0: 55 4E 49 46 4F 52 4D 20  43 41 4E 20 42 45 20 52  |UNIFORM CAN BE R|
000009D0: 45 4A 45 43 54 45 44 2E  0D 0D 2D 2D 2D 2D 3C 20  |EJECTED...----< |
000009E0: 43 4F 4E 54 49 4E 55 45  44 20 49 4E 20 4E 45 58  |CONTINUED IN NEX|
000009F0: 54 20 41 52 54 49 43 4C  45 20 3E 2D 2D 2D 2D 2D  |T ARTICLE >-----|
00000A00: 0D                                                |.               |

.      THE UNIFORM DISTRIBUTION..  IN GE
NERAL A DISTRIBUTION IS A FREQ-..UENCY C
OUNT OF HOW OFTEN EACH POSSIBLE..VALUE A
PPEARS WHEN AN EXPERIMENT IS..PERFORMED.
  FOR EXAMPLE, COUNTING THE..NUMBER OF H
EADS AND THE NUMBER OF..TAILS WHEN A COI
N IS FLIPPED 100..TIMES.  WE WOULD 'EXPE
CT' THE NUMBER..TO BE ABOUT 50-50.  SINC
E BOTH HEADS..AND TAILS SHOULD THEORETIC
ALLY APPEAR..IN EQUAL NUMBERS, THIS DIST
RIBUTION..IS KNOWN AS UNIFORM...  ROLLIN
G A FAIR DIE ALSO HAS A..UNIFORM DISTRIB
UTION.  EACH OF THE..SIX NUMBERS ON THE 
DIE IS EQUALLY..LIKELY AND IN THE LONG R
UN, SAY AFTER..600 TOSSES OF THE DIE, WE
 WOULD..EXPECT ABOUT 100 OF EACH NUMBER 
TO..HAVE APPEARED. FOR AN EXAMPLE OF A..
DISTRIBUTION WHICH IS NOT UNIFORM,..TAKE
 A GIVEN HIGH SCHOOL AND COUNT..THE NUMB
ER OF 18 YEAR-OLD BOYS WHOSE..HEIGHTS FA
LL IN EACH INCH INTERVAL...AS YOU MIGHT 
EXPECT, THE HEIGHTS WILL..CLUSTER AROUND
 A VALUE OF ABOUT 68..INCHES, AND THEN T
APER OFF IN BOTH..DIRECTIONS - SHORTER A
ND TALLER.  IF..ANY INDIVIDUAL IS PICKED
 AT RANDOM,..THE CHANCES OF HIS HEIGHT B
EING 68..INCHES TALL ARE NOT THE SAME AS
 HIS..HEIGHT BEING 80 INCHES TALL...  SO
 WHEN EACH VALUE HAS THE SAME..EXPECTATI
ON, THE DISTRIBUTION IS..CALLED UNIFORM.
  NOT ALL DISTRIBUTIONS..ARE UNIFORM... 
 A RANDOM NUMBER GENERATOR SHOULD,..THEO
RETICALLY, PROVIDE US WITH A..UNIFORM DI
STRIBUTION.  THAT IS, EACH..NUMBER BETWE
EN 0 AND 1 SHOULD HAVE AN..EQUAL CHANCE 
OF APPEARING.  SINCE THE..C-64'S RANDOM 
NUMBER GENERATOR IS NOT..A TRUE RANDOM N
UMBER GENERATOR, IT..WILL BE JUDGED ON H
OW UNIFORM A..DISTRIBUTION IT GENERATES.
..  WE PROPOSE TO TEST THIS AS FOLLOWS:.
.BREAK THE INTERVAL FROM 0 TO 1 INTO N..
SUBINTERVALS WITH THE EQUAL LENGTH..1/N.
  FOR EXAMPLE, IF WE DECIDE TO USE..TEN 
SUBINTERVALS, THEN EACH WILL HAVE..LENGT
H 0.1 (ONE TENTH)...  WE WILL THEN RUN T
HE RANDOM NUMBER..GENERATOR THROUGH SEVE
RAL HUNDRED..ITERATIONS AND THEN COUNT T
HE NUMBER..OF TIMES THE RANDOM NUMBER GE
NERATED..FALLS IN EACH SUBINTERVAL.  IF 
THE..RANDOM NUMBER GENERATOR IS IN FACT.
.UNIFORM, THE COUNTS FOR EACH OF THE..SU
BINTERVALS SHOULD BE ABOUT EQUAL...  A S
TATISTICAL TEST WHICH TESTS THE..HYPOTHE
SIS THAT THE SUBINTERVALS FILL..UNIFORML
Y IS THE CHI-SQUARE..GOODNESS-OF-FIT TEX
T...  RUN THE LOADSTAR CENTRAL LIMIT..PR
OGRAM WITH THE UNIFORM OPTION.  A..HIGH 
P-VALUE (CLOSE TO 1) MEANS THE..HYPOTHES
IS THAT THE DISTRIBUTION IS..UNIFORM IS 
NOT REJECTED.  A..PROBABILITY CLOSE TO 0
 (SAY LESS THAN...05) CAN BE INTERPRETED
 TO MEAN THAT..THE HYPOTHESIS THAT THE D
ISTRIBUTION..IS UNIFORM CAN BE REJECTED.
..----< CONTINUED IN NEXT ARTICLE >-----
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