[Haskell-cafe] statistics package and randomness

[Michael Mossey]

I'm trying to learn how to use randomness in Haskell and it seems very 
non-straightforward and complex. I could do a lot of things using 'split' 
from System.Random, but apparently it's broken. There is the statistics 
package here:

http://hackage.haskell.org/package/statistics

Is this a better solution?

It uses the ST monad in the RandomVariate module. Can someone point me to a 
tutorial explaining ST, and/or a tutorial in the RandomVariate module?

Pseudorandomness seems like one case where it would just be a hell of a lot 
simpler to have a global generator--never split the state. Is the ST monad 
some way to accomplish this?

Thanks,
Mike