Sib-pair Command: rand|rnorm

Class	Algebraic operators and function
Name	rand | rnorm
Arguments

Produce a random value from U(0..1) or N(0,1). That is, a double precision number from the uniform distribution between 0 and 1, or from the Normal distribution with mean 0 and variance 1.

Example:

>> clear
>> set seeds 123 5432 1245
Seeds for RNG (AS183)=   123  5432  1245

>> { rand rand rand }
=>  0.5027132034301758
=>  0.8120918273925781
=>  0.7080494165420532
>> sim ped 100 1 1 1
>> run
>> set loc v1 qua
>> v1=rnorm
>> his v1

------------------------------------------------
Mixture distributions for trait "v1"
------------------------------------------------

 Intvl Midpt  Count   Histogram
 -------------------------------------------------------
     -2.3557      3   ***
     -2.1053      2   **
     -1.8549      4   ****
     -1.6472      1   *
     -1.3541      7   *******
     -1.1037      2   **
     -0.8533      5   *****
     -0.6029     13 | *************
     -0.3525      9 | *********
     -0.1020      9 + *********
      0.1484     18 | ******************
      0.3988      4 | ****
      0.6492      6   ******
      0.8996      5   *****
      1.1500      6   ******
      1.4004      2   **
      1.6508      2   **
      1.9012      0
      2.1516      0
      2.4073      1   *
      2.6524      0
      2.7777      1   *

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