Dave wrote:
>
> I have to use Minitab to generate data of 2 different distributions
> (>1000 data items each); one normal distribution and one non-normal.
> How do I use Minitab to generate data of these distributions?
The command you want is RANDOM [can be appreviated to RAND] on the
command line; it can also be accessed from the menus. The HELP command
will tell you more.
Note that there are many non-normal distributions, some further from
normal than others and differing from the normal distribution in
different ways. The Cauchy distribution is very heavy-tailed and
notoriously ill-behaved (cumulative sample means don't settle down to a
limiting value!); the exponential distribution is asymmetric; the
uniform distribution has discontinuities at the ends (which have
interesting effectws on parameter estimation) but is otherwise rather
tame. It all depends what sort of odd behavious you're looking for!
-Robert Dawson
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