Re: [Help-gsl] Using gsl_ran_gaussian

[John Lamb]

harish vutukuru wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I wold need to generate few the (real)numbers lying in a range[a,b]
> with mean 'mu' and varinace 'va' based on gaussian distributuion. I
> know that gsl_rand_guassian provides numbers from -infinity to
> +infinity for a particular mean and variance.
>
> It would be vey useful to me if someone can tell me how to generate
> them when the range is not -infinity to +infinity

Truncate them. Alternatively, you could try using a beta distribution.

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JDL