Peter
What data do you have exactly so we have something to start with?
Jaime

>Jaime,
>Thanks for your reply. I've visited the site and it indeed somewhat refreshes my mind. I had statistics on university (ph.d. psychology) quite many years ago, so most tests and explanations trigger keys of little doors in my mind. But I have not yet found a solution to my current problem.
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>Given a certain number of values, and assuming that these values are normally distributed, one could calculate the percentile of each of those values. But that's not what I'm interested in. I need to produce the list of values itself, and these values must be normally distributed. So, the other way around. IOW, I need a formula that produces a data sample that's normally distributed.
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>Any additional suggestion?
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>>Peter
>>I don't see where is the problem to write this in VFP. If you have the values for the mean ( easily calculated ) and standard deviation, just write a function with the formula for normal distribution. If you need to refresh your memory about the latter, you can find it here:
>>http://davidmlane.com/hyperstat/normal_distribution.html
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>>Best Regards,
>>Jaime
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>>>Hi to all,
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>>>I need to fill a row of a table with values that meet the requirements of a 'normal distribution'. Excel is supposed to have a function that can generate such values (with the help of the Analysis Toolpak). Is it something that can be accomplished in VFP?