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documentation question: rand
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John W. Eaton |
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documentation question: rand |
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Tue, 24 Feb 1998 22:20:30 -0600 |
On 24-Feb-1998, Thomas Hoffmann <address@hidden> wrote:
| The (internal) function rand (info says: LOADABLE function) has two
| options called
| "normal" and "uniform" which I did not find in the docs.
You should use the rand function for uniform distributions, and the
randn function for normal distributions. The "normal" and "uniform"
options are for compatibility with older versions of Matlab (3.5 and
before, I think) that didn't have a randn function.
jwe