Generally, if you're testing something that is supposed to be truly random (like shuffle and rand-elt), you do a large sample and make sure the distribution of results is truly (close to) uniform.
-SS On Aug 7, 9:17 pm, Sean Devlin <francoisdev...@gmail.com> wrote: > Ok, I need some help. I'm writing some tests for c.c.seq-utils, and I > ran into a problem defining a test for both shuffle and rand-elt. > > Does anyone here have any experience writing tests for random > functions? Am I going to need to use serious statistics the answer > this? > > Ideas? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
