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fix attribution of "Marsaglia method" for hyperspherical variates #518

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Summary:

Turns out they weren't due to (Marsaglia 1972), but are just "method 2" in that paper. Change to correct citation in both the user's guide and reference manual.

Description:

Replace citations of Marsaglia 1972 with this:

Muller, M. E. "A Note on a Method for Generating Points Uniformly on N-Dimensional Spheres." Comm. Assoc. Comput. Mach. 2, 19-20, Apr. 1959.

which is the paper Marsaglia cites.

Change in:

  • User's Guide
  • Reference Manual

Current Version:

v2.18.0

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