Filling a column with data from a random generator without using a for loop

[Henry F. Mollet]

I need to fill a column in a matrix with zeros and ones according to a
binomial random generator and don't want to use a for loop. How is it done?
Henry

matrix(:,1) = binomial_rnd(1,0.5); % using p = 0.5 here, so mean of cols
should be about 0.5. This produces all zeros or all ones as apparently
binomial_rnd(1,0.5) is evaluated only once.
I did this for 5 cols of length 100 and got
octave:117> mean (matrix)
ans =
  1  0  0  1  1

If I use a for loop I get what I want but how do I do it without the for
loop? 

for k=1:100  %for loop for each col
matrix(k,1) = binomial_rnd(1,0.5);
endfor
octave:140> mean(matrix)
ans =
  0.49000  0.52000  0.57000  0.47000  0.54000



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