Dear Ondra, A good place to check is mathworld.wolfram.com.
Look for Sphere Point Picking and Hypersphere Point Picking. Cheers, Mauro morphmet wrote: > Dear morphometricians, > > could you advise me, how to generate random vectors? (For the purpose of > testing whether an angle between PCs is significantly more acute than > expected by chance.) From which distribution their elements should be taken? > > > Thank you in advance > > > Ondra Mikula > > Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics > Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic > Veveri 97, CZ-60200 Brno > Czech Republic > e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- *************************************************************** Mauro Santos Departament de Genètica i de Microbiologia Facultat de Ciències, Edifici Cn Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 08193 Bellaterra (Barcelona) SPAIN Telephone: +34 93 581 2725 Fax: +34 93 581 2387 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://einstein.uab.es/msantos/ ESF Programme on 'Thermal Adaptation in Ectotherms' http://www.esf.org/thermadapt *************************************************************** -- Replies will be sent to the list. For more information visit http://www.morphometrics.org
