Re: Getting normal distributed subset from a normal distributed data set

2018-04-23 Thread Alan Mead
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/p

Getting normal distributed subset from a normal distributed data set

2018-04-23 Thread Elisa Pieri
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 wel