[Tutor] Normal distribution random numbers?

Deirdre Saoirse Moen deirdre@deirdre.net
Wed, 20 Jun 2001 10:03:45 -0700


I can't find anything out there useful, but perhaps it's just that 
I'm so overtired and fried from grad school finals week (now week and 
a half).

Given a mean, a standard deviation and a random number 0..1, I need a 
function that gives me the generated random number corrected for the 
mean and standard deviation.

This is one of those stats-with-calculus problems that I simply am 
not proficient enough in either subject to derive myself (especially 
not in my current brain mush state).

I've seen stuff out there that'll give the cdf, but that's not what I 
need. I need the raw #.