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Re: Generation of Gaussian (normal) distributed random numbers?

2009-01-17 by Tim Wessman

> RAND generates uniformly distributed random numbers, and I'm trying to
> find a method for generating normally distributed random numbers. Any
> ideas? Thx.

If you are wanting to learn how to do it, that link is a really good
resource. If you just want to be able to generate a set of data that
is normally distributed look at the link:

http://www.hpcalc.org/details.php?id=4911

The command you'll want to use is NORMSIM which stands for normal
simulation. It should work unless I am remembering incorrectly, but I
haven't touched that code since I wrote it when I was 17 or so.

TW

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