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Re: Getting normal distributed subset from a normal distributed data set


From: Alan Mead
Subject: Re: Getting normal distributed subset from a normal distributed data set
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2018 10:06:48 -0500
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I don't know if this answers your question (because I don't know how to sample and ensure a particular distribution of the subsample) but any random sample of a normal population should approximate normality as the sample size grows, so you could take a random sample:  http://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/manual/html_node/SAMPLE.html

-Alan

On 4/23/2018 8:54 AM, Elisa Pieri wrote:
Hello,

I'm sorry if this question is pretty trivial, but I couldn't find a solution online (maybe it's because I'm not asking in the right way).

I have a data set of N values that follow a normal distribution. I would like to sample this data set, creating a subset of N/10 values following as well the normal distribution. How to do that in PSPP?

(I'm using PSPP 0.10.2 on Mint 18.3.)

Thank you!
Elisa


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