Carleton University
Technical Report TR-209
July 1992

On Generating Random Intervals and Hyperrectangles

Luc Devroye, Peter Epstein , Jörg-Rüdiger Sack

Abstract

We propose several methods for generating random intervals and hyper­rectangles that cover each point of a given set with equal probability. We study the properties of such random intervals and conclude with some simulation examples.

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