On 10-Mar-09 23:01:45, g...@ucalgary.ca wrote: > Please forget the last email I sent with the same subject. > ================= > I would like to generate pseudo-random numbers between two numbers > using R, up to a given distribution, for instance, norm. That is > something like > rnorm(HowMany,Min,Max,mean,sd) > over rnorm(HowMany,mean,sd). > I am wondering if > > qnorm(runif(HowMany, pnorm(Min,mean,sd), pnorm(Max,mean, sd)), > mean, sd) > > is good. Any idea? Thanks. > -james
It would certainly work as intended! For instance: truncnorm<-function(HowMany,Min,Max,mean=0,sd=1){ qnorm(runif(HowMany, pnorm(Min,mean,sd), pnorm(Max,mean, sd)), mean, sd)} Sample <- truncnorm(1000,-1,2.5) hist(Sample,breaks=100) Hoping this helps, Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <ted.hard...@manchester.ac.uk> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 10-Mar-09 Time: 23:39:13 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------ ______________________________________________ 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.