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- ## Copyright (C) 1995, 1996, 1997 Kurt Hornik
- ##
- ## This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
- ## it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
- ## the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
- ## any later version.
- ##
- ## This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
- ## WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- ## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
- ## General Public License for more details.
- ##
- ## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
- ## along with this file. If not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
- ## 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
-
- ## usage: stdnormal_rnd (r, c)
- ##
- ## Return an r by c matrix of random numbers from the standard normal
- ## distribution.
-
- ## Author: KH <Kurt.Hornik@ci.tuwien.ac.at>
- ## Description: Random deviates from the standard normal distribution
-
- function rnd = stdnormal_rnd (r, c)
-
- if (nargin != 2)
- usage ("stdnormal_rnd (r, c)");
- endif
-
- if ( !(is_scalar (r) && (r > 0) && (r == round (r))) )
- error ("stdnormal_rnd: r must be a positive integer");
- endif
- if ( !(is_scalar (c) && (c > 0) && (c == round (c))) )
- error ("stdnormal_rnd: c must be a positive integer");
- endif
-
- rnd = randn (r, c);
-
- endfunction
-