[R] random normally distributed values within range

[Pedro.Rodriguez at sungard.com]

Hi Achaz,

Maybe you are interested in the generalized beta distribution?

To the best of my knowledge, there is no way to restrict the values of
normal deviates, since one may end up with a different distribution.

Regards,

Pedro 

 



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On Behalf Of Achaz von Hardenberg
Sent: Monday, October 06, 2008 6:55 PM
To: r-help at r-project.org
Subject: [R] random normally distributed values within range

Hi all,
I need to create 100 normally distributed random values (X) which can  
not exceed a specific range (i.e. 0<X<Y).
With rnorm I cannot specify Max and min  values among which values  
have to stay, like in runif so does some other simple way exist to do  
this with normally distributed random values?

thanks a lot in advance,

Dr. Achaz von Hardenberg
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