diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 2c4d0ba..a0f83b6 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ version = "0.3"
 
 [dev-dependencies]
 bencher = "0.1"
-rand = "0.5"
+rand = "0.6"
 serde_json = "1"
 streaming-stats = "0.2"
 quantiles = "0.7"
diff --git a/tests/streaming_stats.rs b/tests/streaming_stats.rs
index 9420981..aad3e21 100644
--- a/tests/streaming_stats.rs
+++ b/tests/streaming_stats.rs
@@ -8,10 +8,11 @@ extern crate stats;
 /// Create a random vector by sampling from a normal distribution.
 fn initialize_vec(size: usize) -> Vec<f64> {
     use rand::distributions::{Normal, Distribution};
-    use rand::{XorShiftRng, SeedableRng};
+    use rand::SeedableRng;
+    use rand::rngs::SmallRng;
     let normal = Normal::new(2.0, 3.0);
     let mut values = Vec::with_capacity(size);
-    let mut rng = XorShiftRng::from_seed(
+    let mut rng = SmallRng::from_seed(
         [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16]);
     for _ in 0..size {
         values.push(normal.sample(&mut rng));