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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Pspp-users mailing list > Pspp-users@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-users -- Alan D. Mead, Ph.D. President, Talent Algorithms Inc. science + technology = better workers http://www.alanmead.org I've... seen things you people wouldn't believe... functions on fire in a copy of Orion. I watched C-Sharp glitter in the dark near a programmable gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like Ruby... on... Rails... Time for Pi. --"The Register" user Alister, applying the famous "Blade Runner" speech to software development
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