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Problems with Random

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  • Subject: [mg26027] Problems with Random
  • From: "Michael.Walther" <michael.walther at datenrevision.de>
  • Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 04:07:38 -0500 (EST)
  • Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

According to THE BOOK I schould get a random number for a normal
distribution with

<<Statistics`ContinuousDistributions`

x = Random[NormalDistribution[50,2.1] ]
But I got

Random::"randt": "Type specification NormalDistribution[50,2.1] in
Random[NormalDistribution[50, 2.1]] should be Real, Integer, or Complex.".
I get a similar message for other distributions. What is wrong

all the best

Michael Walther





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