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Computational investigations of scrambled Faure sequences

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  • Vandewoestyne, Bart
  • Chi, Hongmei
  • Cools, Ronald

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The Faure sequence is one of the well-known quasi-random sequences used in quasi-Monte Carlo applications. In its original and most basic form, the Faure sequence suffers from correlations between different dimensions. These correlations result in poorly distributed two-dimensional projections. A standard solution to this problem is to use a randomly scrambled version of the Faure sequence. We analyze various scrambling methods and propose a new nonlinear scrambling method, which has similarities with inversive congruential methods for pseudo-random number generation. We demonstrate the usefulness of our scrambling by means of two-dimensional projections and integration problems.

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  • Vandewoestyne, Bart & Chi, Hongmei & Cools, Ronald, 2010. "Computational investigations of scrambled Faure sequences," Mathematics and Computers in Simulation (MATCOM), Elsevier, vol. 81(3), pages 522-535.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:matcom:v:81:y:2010:i:3:p:522-535
    DOI: 10.1016/j.matcom.2009.09.007
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