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| From | Maarten buis <maartenbuis@yahoo.co.uk> |
| To | statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu |
| Subject | Re: st: Random draws from multivariate normal not centered at the mean |
| Date | Tue, 15 Feb 2011 08:33:08 +0000 (GMT) |
--- On Tue, 15/2/11, Mauro Caselli wrote:
> Unfortunately, that doesn't quite do the job. The means()
> option tells the means of the distribution you draw from,
> which in my previous example were 4 and 5. But is it
> possible to draw from that distribution with mean 4 and 5
> a set of numbers that are not centered around those means?
There are multiple measures of central tendency --- mean,
median, mode --- but in a symetric uni-modal distribution
like the normal/Gaussian distribution they are all the same.
So what you ask is impossible.
-- Maarten
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