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Dear All,
It is an interesting point that the replacement will have little effect given a large enough value of N. As Tristram mentioned the main influence will be in the tails of the distribution, unfortunately the tails are the most important issue for me because I&#8217;m trying to determine critical values for a statistical test. It may be that overall the solutions you have offered are still an improvement over a MC derived distribution which respects the replacement issue.
Thanks for your help,
Dave