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Re: skewed randoms
From: |
Paul Johnson |
Subject: |
Re: skewed randoms |
Date: |
Tue, 08 Feb 2000 16:01:39 -0600 |
Ginger Booth wrote:
>
> Dear gang,
> Does anyone happen to know how to generate skewed random
> Gaussian deviates? The normally distributed random numbers are
> no problem, I'm just trying to figure out how to skew (er? :) them.
> (Will now put pen to paper and see if I can figure it out.... ;)
>
> Thanks,
Do you mean you want a Beta or some other nonsymmetric distribution? If
so, I will tell you the magic recipe, write me. If you want truncated
Normals, let me know how you do it because I've been curious how it can
be done.
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