2.10 Publishing your results

When you publish simulation results, a key piece of configuration information that you should always state is how you used the the random number generator.

• what seeds you used,
• what RNG you used if not the default,
• how were independent runs performed,
• for large simulations, how did you check that you did not cycle.

It is incumbent on the researcher publishing results to include enough information to allow others to reproduce his or her results. It is also incumbent on the researcher to convince oneself that the random numbers used were statistically valid, and to state in the paper why such confidence is assumed.

This document was generated on April 21, 2010 using texi2html 1.82.