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Subject: Re: help with generating skewed distribution?
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"Anna Chen" <icedredtea@yahoo.com> wrote in message 
<g8466e$amb$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
> 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!

randsrc is part of the Communications Toolbox.