Re: st: Generating random variables with logistic distribution

[Richard Williams <Richard.A.Williams.5@ND.edu>]

At 11:29 AM 8/4/2005 -0400, Eric G. Wruck wrote:
> This rang a bell so I went back to Mood, Graybill & Boes (1974).  What you 
> are interested in is called a probability integral transform (p. 202 if 
> you have that
Thanks to Eric, David & Thomas.  I can't quite figure out how to use the 
-rnd- command (it wants parameters and I am not sure how to specify them) 
but the formulas given seem to work fine.  For alpha = 0 and beta = 1 I 
believe you should get a mean of about 0 and an s.d. of around 1.8, and 
that is indeed what I get.

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