Re: Generating lists of normally-distributed numbers?
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- Subject: [mg6318] Re: [mg6265] Generating lists of normally-distributed numbers?
- From: jost at no-junk-mail.fr (Christian Jost)
- Date: Sat, 8 Mar 1997 00:26:43 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: Universite Paris-Sud XI
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In article <5fmlri$26r at smc.vnet.net>, wacb at welchlink.welch.jhu.edu (Bill
Christens-Barry) wrote:
> Can someone provide a simple example of how a list of N elements can be
> generated, with the list elements being normally distibuted? I'd like to
> include random seeding so I can generate an ensemble of such lists.
>
> Are there general tools in Mma 3.0 for generating lsits with various
> statistics? How do I go about searching for sites where these kinds of
> tools can be found?
>
Yes, check out your standard add-on packages, eg.
Statistics`ContinuousDistributions`
In[2]:=
<<Statistics`ContinuousDistributions`
In[3]:=
Random[NormalDistribution[5,1]]
Out[3]=
5.2894
In[4]:=
RandomArray[NormalDistribution[5,1],5]
Out[4]=
{5.14774,4.39605,4.25201,6.28701,4.64452}
Hth, Christian.
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