[R] Question
Davia Cox
davia.cox at gmail.com
Tue Dec 13 12:24:13 CET 2005
Please disregard this message and don't post it to the web. I found
the answer.
Thanks
Davia S. Cox
517-575-8031 cell
davia.cox at gmail.com
"Human potential, though not always apparent, is there waiting to be
discovered and invited forth." -William W. Purkey
On Dec 13, 2005, at 6:20 AM, Davia Cox wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a problem that I am trying to solve and I am not sure how to
> do it in R.
>
> Suppose, that 16 numbers are choosen at random from 0 to 9, what's
> the probability that their average will be between 4 and 6. I typed
> the following code:
>
> set.seed(100)
> sample(0:9, 16, replace =TRUE)
> [1] 3 2 5 0 4 4 8 3 5 1 6 8 2 3 7 6
>
> Is what I got, however I realize the set.seed function locks in the
> number I get every time.
> My question is in order to run a true random sample, wouldn't I
> have to use the runif function? And then deliminate the sample to
> show the numbers that lie between 4 and 6? If that's the case, how
> do I do that?
>
>
> Davia S. Cox
> 517-575-8031 cell
> davia.cox at gmail.com
>
> "Human potential, though not always apparent, is there waiting to
> be discovered and invited forth." -William W. Purkey
>
>
>
>
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