[R] random normally distributed values within range

[Rolf Turner]

On 7/10/2008, at 11:54 AM, Achaz von Hardenberg wrote:

> 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?

Presumably you want a truncated normal distribution.  Duncan Murdoch
posted some neat code on this list, back in the end of July this year,
to generate samples from such a distribution.


See:

	http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/Rhelp02a/archive/137154.html

	cheers,

		Rolf Turner

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