Re: skewed randoms

[Paul Johnson]

Ginger Booth wrote:
> 
> Dear gang,
>         Does anyone happen to know how to generate skewed random
> Gaussian deviates? The normally distributed random numbers are
> no problem, I'm just trying to figure out how to skew (er? :) them.
> (Will now put pen to paper and see if I can figure it out.... ;)
> 
> Thanks,

Do you mean you want a Beta or some other nonsymmetric distribution?  If
so, I will tell you the magic recipe, write me.  If you want truncated
Normals, let me know how you do it because I've been curious how it can
be done.

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