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Subject: help with generating skewed distribution?
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 15:09:02 +0000 (UTC)
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Hello,
I would like to generate a population of numbers, from 1-
100 for example, distributed almost uniformly.  However, I 
want the larger numbers to have more chance of popping up, 
so the population skews to the left.  
how would i be able to do this with matlab 2008?  i had 
thought of using randsrc, but for some reason it's not in 
my version?  i have the statistics toolbox, if that helps.
thanks!