generating random variables with expected value of one and finite variation.

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Mohammad Sayeed on 23 Jan 2015

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How can I generate positive i.i.d random variables with the expected value of one and finite variation in MATLAB? Anyone help please.

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a = 1;
y = a*randn(1000,1) + 1;

creates 1000 normally distributed random numbers with expected value of 1 and variance a.

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Torsten on 23 Jan 2015

Sorry, replace "variance" by "standard deviation".

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Mohammad Sayeed on 23 Jan 2015

That works. Thank you brother.

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