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Re: idl bimodal distribution [message #73563 is a reply to message #73562]

Fri, 19 November 2010 10:24

penteado
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On Nov 19, 4:14 pm, Ana <u...@compgroups.net/> wrote:
> I'm trying to simulate a bimodal "randomn" distribution with the 2 peaks having the sigmas of 0.3 each for example and mean around -1.2 and -0.7...
> Do you have any tips?
>
> I've tried adding these below, but it doesn't work..., I get a unimodal distribution...
> met_1a = randomn(seed,100000)*0.3-1.2
> met_1b = randomn(seed,100000)*0.3-0.7
>
> Can someone help?

Maybe I misunderstood it, but is this not a result of the central
limit theorem?

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		Re: idl bimodal distribution By: penteado on Fri, 19 November 2010 10:32
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