Errors can be broadly grouped into two major categories: biases, which are systematic and which can be modeled in an equation describing the measurements, thereby removing or significantly reducing ...

There are a few common ways of creating uniform random distributions. The most general is probably the Fisher-Yates shuffle , which can be readily used for shuffling even enormous numbers of items.

Arnošt Komárek, Emmanuel Lesaffre, BAYESIAN ACCELERATED FAILURE TIME MODEL FOR CORRELATED INTERVAL-CENSORED DATA WITH A NORMAL MIXTURE AS ERROR DISTRIBUTION, Statistica Sinica, Vol. 17, No. 2 (April ...