- 1. Generate random numbers knowing median and inter-quartiles only (score: 1)
- Author: "Dr. Takashi Kikuchi" <mhs208@bangor.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 04 May 2006 15:02:30 +0100
- Dear S-Plus users Dose anyone have S-plus codes to generate random numbers knowing median and inter-quartiles only. Let's assume a normal distribution for the samples. Regards, Takashi -- mhs208@bang
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- 2. Re: Generate random numbers knowing median and inter-quartiles only (score: 1)
- Author: "Dimitris Rizopoulos" <dimitris.rizopoulos@med.kuleuven.be>
- Date: Thu, 4 May 2006 16:19:27 +0200
- if you want to simulate from normal you only need median (which is also the mean) and one quantile since you only need to find the standard deviation, e.g., q1 <- qnorm(0.25, sd = 5.12) sigma <- func
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