How to generate a Bernoulli distributed binary data

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Hi, I am trying to generate a Bernoulli distributed binary data. please help.

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Shashank Prasanna
Shashank Prasanna on 2 Jul 2013
You probably have an older version of MATLAB installed.
Try the following instead:
Check the output of 'ver' command to confirm you have the statistics toolbox.
If not there is always FEX:

Wayne King
Wayne King on 1 Jul 2013
Edited: Wayne King on 1 Jul 2013
Do you have the Statistics Toolbox?
You have to specify the parameter for the distribution, which is the probability of a "success". Here I'll use p = 0.25
pd = makedist('Binomial','N',1,'p',0.25);
x = random(pd,100,1);
If you want the simple case where p = 0.5
x = randi([0 1],100,1);
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Mallikarjuna
Mallikarjuna on 2 Jul 2013
I am getting an error saying, 'makedist function is not supported'! Is there any other way of doing it without using the statistics toolbox?

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