I don't know if this answers your question (because I don't know how to
sample and ensure a particular distribution of the subsample) but any
random sample of a normal population should approximate normality as the
sample size grows, so you could take a random sample: 
http://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/manual/html_node/SAMPLE.html

-Alan

On 4/23/2018 8:54 AM, Elisa Pieri wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm sorry if this question is pretty trivial, but I couldn't find a
> solution online (maybe it's because I'm not asking in the right way).
>
> I have a data set of N values that follow a normal distribution. I
> would like to sample this data set, creating a subset of N/10 values
> following as well the normal distribution. How to do that in PSPP?
>
> (I'm using PSPP 0.10.2 on Mint 18.3.)
>
> Thank you!
> Elisa
>
>
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