Path: news.mathworks.com!not-for-mail
From: "Adhithya Plato " <adi_plato@rocketmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.matlab
Subject: normrnd+strength distribution+reliability
Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2009 02:54:02 +0000 (UTC)
Organization: The MathWorks, Inc.
Lines: 5
Message-ID: <h2mg89$qh9$1@fred.mathworks.com>
Reply-To: "Adhithya Plato " <adi_plato@rocketmail.com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: webapp-02-blr.mathworks.com
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
X-Trace: fred.mathworks.com 1246676042 27177 172.30.248.37 (4 Jul 2009 02:54:02 GMT)
X-Complaints-To: news@mathworks.com
NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2009 02:54:02 +0000 (UTC)
X-Newsreader: MATLAB Central Newsreader 1887993
Xref: news.mathworks.com comp.soft-sys.matlab:552741


i want to construct a normal distribution in order to find reliability through FOSM. Moreover the original 64 data do not follow any usual distribution. 
For finding strength distribution the mean and the std deviation should not change when converting the non-normal data into normal. So i used normrnd command, specifying the mean, std.dev of the original data. And acquired a distribution which is normal with the original data's mean and std dev.

Is my approach is correct??