David V Glasgow wrote: > Quite a lot of stats and maths packages offer a feature whereby the N, > the Mean and the SD are variables specified by the user, and N random > numbers are then generated with the required mean and SD. I remember > the venerable and excellent Hypercard HyperStat > <https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.3758/BF03204668.pdf> (1993) > by David M Lane doing exactly that. > > In general terms, how do they do this?
Mark Waddingham would be able to answer that rather excellently, if he has the time.
My only contribution here is that I found the paper you linked to interesting enough to look up the HyperStat author. Apparently he's grown a rather intriguing collection of fun things of that sort - I wonder if the answer to your question might be found among them?
https://www.davidmlane.com/hyperstat/index.html -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Systems Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web ____________________________________________________________________ ambassa...@fourthworld.com http://www.FourthWorld.com _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
