- Statistics turned upside down
- Production of Random Numbers and Random Sequences
with desired properties
- Random paths through real space (diffusion)
or phase space (Monte Carlo Simulation)
- Application of MC to optimization and minimization problems
Equidistributed Random Variates: - Linear Congruential Generators
- Shift Register Generators
Other Distributions: - Transformation Method
- Box-Muller Method for the Normal Distribution
- Rejection Method
- Multivariate Gaussian Distribution
- Equidistribution in Orientation Space
Random Sequences: - Markov Chains and the Monte Carlo method
- Stochastic Optimization
- Simulated Annealing
- Genetic Algorithms
Subsections