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In this note a computer procedure to transform uniform random variables into random points uniformly distributed on an N-dimensional sphere is presented. The procedure is much simpler than the ones thus far published.
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Sibuya, M. A method for generating uniformly distributed points onN-dimensional spheres. Ann Inst Stat Math 14, 81–85 (1962). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02868626
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02868626