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Choosing a Point from the Surface of a Sphere

  • Marsaglia G
The Annals of Mathematical Statistics (1972) 43(2) 645-646
DOI: 10.1214/aoms/1177692644
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Abstract

The object of this note is to point out and discuss a simple transformation of an absolutely continuous k-variate distribution in the uniform distribution on the k-dimensional hypercube.

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Marsaglia, G. (1972). Choosing a Point from the Surface of a Sphere. The Annals of Mathematical Statistics, 43(2), 645–646. https://doi.org/10.1214/aoms/1177692644

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