On Wed, 4 Mar 2009, David Winsemius wrote:
In what ways is rnorm not a satisfactory answer?
My guess was that CB wants to generate a finite population whose mean and
variance are specified, which would involve rnorm() followed by centering and
scaling.
-thomas
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David Winsemius
On Mar 3, 2009, at 9:33 PM, CB wrote:
This seems like it should be obvious, but searches I've tried all come
up with rnorm etc.
Is there a way of generating normally-distributed 'population' data
with known parameters?
Cheers, CB.
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