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Re: st: Questions for random data generation and value label
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Re: st: Questions for random data generation and value label
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Mon, 11 Mar 2013 15:36:13 +0000
It seems that you want a distribution defined by its mean, standard deviation and range, which may mean the range = max - min or the pair (min, max). I don't know of any distribution defined in this way. Some beta distribution may be closest to what you want. I think you are going to have to specify distribution shape directly or indirectly.
Nick
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On 11 Mar 2013, at 15:20, Yu Xue <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks Maarten!
>
> I already checked "-help random_number_functions-", but I still can
> not find the answer to my question.
>
> I knew that I can use a formula similar like this:
> Var=a+int((b-a+1)*runiform()), to keep a specific range in [a,b]
> and use another formula: Var=invnorm(uniform())*SD+mean, to keep
> specific Standard deviation and mean.
> But I do not know how to generate a "Var" with all specific range, SD, and mean.
> Please note that I do not generate a sample data from the actual data,
> what I want to generate is synthetic data (totally fake data).
>
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