Or, as suggested by Duncan Murdoch, qnorm(runif(500,pnorm(-1.5),pnorm(1.5)))
--- On Fri, 25/7/08, jim holtman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: jim holtman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [R] simple random number generation > To: "dxc13" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: r-help@r-project.org > Received: Friday, 25 July, 2008, 12:43 PM > Generate more than you need and then just keep 500 of them: > > > x <- rnorm(3000) # make sure we have enough > > y <- x[(x > -1.5) & (x < 1.5)][1:500] # > keep 500 0f them > > hist(y) > > > > On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 7:35 PM, dxc13 > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > useR's, > > > > I want to randomly generate 500 numbers from the > standard normal > > distribution, i.e. N(0,1), but I only want them to be > generated in the range > > -1.5 to 1.5. Does anyone have a simple way to do > this? > > > > Thanks, > > > > dxc13 > > -- > > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/simple-random-number-generation-tp18642611p18642611.html > > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at > Nabble.com. > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, > reproducible code. > > > > > > -- > Jim Holtman > Cincinnati, OH > +1 513 646 9390 > > What is the problem you are trying to solve? > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, > reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
