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Hello all,

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

~Shawn

Maybe this will help - 
http://www.sitmo.com/doc/Generating_Normal_Distributed_Random_Numbers

Richard in NC

--- In 50g@yahoogroups.com, "Shawn D. King" <shawndking@...> wrote:
>
> Hello all,
> 
> RAND generates uniformly distributed random numbers, and I'm trying 
to 

> find a method for generating normally distributed random numbers. Any 
> ideas? Thx.
> 
> ~Shawn
>

> 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