[R] How to generate fake population (ie. not sample) data?

[Thomas Lumley]

On Wed, 4 Mar 2009, David Winsemius wrote:

> In what ways is rnorm not a satisfactory answer?

My guess was that CB wants to generate a finite population whose mean and variance are specified, which would involve rnorm() followed by centering and scaling.

       -thomas


> -- 
> David Winsemius
>
> On Mar 3, 2009, at 9:33 PM, CB wrote:
>
>> This seems like it should be obvious, but searches I've tried all come
>> up with rnorm etc.
>> 
>> Is there a way of generating normally-distributed 'population' data
>> with known parameters?
>> 
>> Cheers, CB.
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Thomas Lumley			Assoc. Professor, Biostatistics
tlumley at u.washington.edu	University of Washington, Seattle