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Re: serie of random number

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  • Subject: [mg21250] Re: serie of random number
  • From: callan at stat.wisc.edu (David Callan)
  • Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 02:28:11 -0500 (EST)
  • Organization: U. of Wisconsin-Madison
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In article <83afuu$r0v at smc.vnet.net>, Raphael Suire
<raphael.suire at univ-rennes1.fr> wrote:

> Dear list,
> 
> maybe a naive question !!
> 
> i want to compute a serie of random number
> Table[random[Real,{0,1}],{n}]]
> 
> which sum is always one
> 
> How can i do ??
> 
> 
> Raphael Suire
> 
> 
 Try splitting (0,1) into n parts by choosing n-1 random numbers in (0,1).
The lengths of the n subintervals thus obtained will be random numbers in
(0,1) summing to 1.

David Callan  
Department of Statistics  
University of Wisconsin-Madison  
1210 W. Dayton Street  
Madison, WI 53706-1693

callan at stat.wisc.edu


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