Bug#596005: RFP: testu01 -- TestU01 utilities for the empirical statistical testing of uniform random number generators

[Christoph Anton Mitterer <calestyo@scientia.net>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

* Package name    : testu01
  Version         : 1.2.3
  Upstream Author : Richard Simard <simardr@iro.umontreal.ca>
* URL             : http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~simardr/testu01/tu01.html
* License         : non-free for commerical use
  Programming Lang: C
  Description     : TestU01 utilities for the empirical statistical testing of uniform random number generators

TestU01 is a software library, implemented in the ANSI C language, and
offering a collection of utilities for the empirical statistical testing of
uniform random number generators.

The library implements several types of random number generators in generic
form, as well as many specific generators proposed in the literature or found
in widely-used software. It provides general implementations of the classical
statistical tests for random number generators, as well as several others
proposed in the literature, and some original ones. These tests can be applied
to the generators predefined in the library and to user-defined generators.
Specific tests suites for either sequences of uniform random numbers in [0,1] or
bit sequences are also available. Basic tools for plotting vectors of points
produced by generators are provided as well.