Generating random number.
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Hello,
I have 2 questions to ask:
- I need to generate 5 gaussian distribution data having specified stabndard deviation and particular min and max value.
- I need to genearate 5 gaussian distribution data having minimum distance between 2 point of 2 meter and maximum distance between 2 points as 3.5 meter.
As i had used randn function but not getting data with that particular specification.
Please help regaerding that.
Thanks
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Bjorn Gustavsson
2019-1-22
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Well, slightly unclear question, but I'll try answering: "you need to generating some given number of random points from a Gaussian distribution with the following criteria". Since the Gaussian distribution is continuous and has infintely wide tails the only way I can see you achive this is to generate the required number of points, test if the requirements are met and then keep those otherwise draw another batch of points, repeat until stopping criteria.
Maybe there are more clever ways to achive this without introducing strange biases making the distribution of points be way off Gaussian - but that seems peculiar.
HTH
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Moby Philip
2019-1-22
Bjorn Gustavsson
2019-1-22
Well, then loop and test!
foundem = 0
while fuondem == 0
points = MV + STVV*randn(nr_points);
if conditions4OK(points)
foundem = 1;
end
end
You might have to modify this a bit - and as per Walter's answer, depending on your conditions this might take a while - you might put in something that limits the run-time in the while-loop (look at etime) and return an empty array for the points to indicate a fail.
Moby Philip
2019-1-22
Walter Roberson
2019-1-22
Random numbers generated with randn() do not have any unit. randn() has no idea whether a result of -3.348980 represents nanometers or light years.
Bjorn Gustavsson
2019-1-23
To give you further guidance than the clue given by Walter: since the random numbers given by randn are numbers without units the MV and STDV in my suggestion surely must come with physically meaningful factors, i.e. with physical units. Then after that, but before the condition you are allowed to insert additional commands to extract information about the numbers you've gotten. Take a look at the help for sort, max min and diff, then think about how to combine those to get the information necessary to check the conditions, also look at the help for if.
HTH
Walter Roberson
2019-1-23
The probability of generating two numbers 8 standard deviations apart is 1 in about 225 million -- and the other numbers might not happen to have the required distance properties.
Bjorn Gustavsson
2019-1-23
Where do you get the "8 standard deviations apart" from? OP writes "specified stabndard (sic) deviation" I take that to mean that the OP are supposed to fund such a standard deviatin as to generate random number sequences with fulfilliing the requirements. The numerically impossible task is to draw 2 random numbers with 2 particular values (the max and min values in part 1), that is unlikely even in a finite precision 32-bit floating-point world.
Walter Roberson
2019-1-23
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2019-1-23
Since we are not told otherwise after repeated questions, we have to speculate that the standard deviation is 1 m, and thus that the minimal solution (if it could be randomly generated) would be [-4 -2 0 2 4] which is a span of 8 standard deviations.
Bjorn Gustavsson
2019-1-23
Yeah, continuing to argue this way or that way is rather pointless - the only thing we know at this point is that at least one of us are interpreting the task incorrectly.
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Walter Roberson
2019-1-22
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- Gaussian distribution is always infinite in both tails. It is a contradiction to use gaussian with min and max values.
- Statistics Toolbox offers makedist() and truncate() that together can create a truncated Gaussian.
- #2 is definitely not gaussian distribution.
- Your absolute distince of 2 does not mean much unless we know the standard distribution. Otherwise you are dealing with a minimum span of 8 standard deviations, like [0 2 4 6 8] 5 points no two closer than 2 together, total span is 8. 8 standard deviations is not very common; you would have to generate for a pretty long time to satisify the conditions randomly.
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