 I used sample like you suggested.
Thank you,
Sigalit.

On 1/15/08, Zhengyang Sun <kirsten1209@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Sigalit,
> use ?sample. hope the example below answers your question:
> > aa<-rnorm(20,3,0.6)
> > aa
>  [1] 2.348048 2.535320 2.773491 3.051137 2.574342 3.636812 3.267405
> 2.475192
>  [9] 3.327903 3.539000 1.962290 2.423167 2.604629 2.929914 3.110048
> 3.673091
> [17] 3.316083 3.545558 3.103457 2.551673
> > sample(aa,30,replace=TRUE)
>  [1] 2.475192 2.551673 2.535320 3.545558 3.673091 3.316083 2.348048
> 3.636812
>  [9] 2.574342 3.051137 2.574342 2.574342 3.539000 2.535320 3.539000
> 3.545558
> [17] 3.051137 3.636812 2.475192 2.348048 3.051137 2.535320 3.316083
> 2.348048
> [25] 2.929914 3.539000 3.110048 2.773491 1.962290 2.475192
>
> then you can do the rest, eg, take mean, sum, etc of the resampled data
>
>
> 2008/1/15, sigalit mangut-leiba <smangut@gmail.com>:
> >
> > Hello,
> > How do I sample observations with replacement from a normal distribution
> > with a specific mean and s.d?
> > (I want to see the sample, not only the statistic.)
> > Thank you,
> > Sigalit.
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