IBM® SPSS® Amos™ 32

The Mersenne Twister (Matsumoto & Nishimura, 1998) is used

▪for Bayesian estimation

▪for multiple imputation

▪during heuristic specification searches to break ties between equally well-fitting models

▪as the uniform random number generator for the AmosRanGen class

The Wichman-Hill (Wichman & Hill, 1982) random number generator is used

•for the bootstrap

•for permutations tests

To specify a seed for the Mersenne Twister, choose Tools→Seed Manager from the Amos Graphics menu bar.