1 Methods for Generating Random Variables 1.1 Generating Uniform(0,1) random number 1.2 Random Generators of Common Probability Distribution in R 1.2.1 The Inverse Transform Method 1.2.2 The Acceptance-Rejection Method 1.2.3 Transformation Methods 1.2.4 Sums and Mixtures 1.3 Multivariate Distribution 1.3.1 Multivariate Normal Distribution 1.3.2 Mixtures of Multivariate Normals 1.3.3 Wishart Distribution 1.3.4 Uniform Distribution on the d−Sphere 1.4 Stochastic Process