Duncan Murdoch recently (24 July 2008) posted code providing a much more
elegant and efficient approach. (Subject line: truncated normal). Also
there is apparently a function in the msm package which will do this
for you.
cheers,
Rolf Turner
On 25/07/2008, at 2:43 PM, jim holtman wrote:
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
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