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Function written to match MATLAB's randn function

Source: R/randn.R
randn.Rd

Generate random samples from a standardized normal distribution and return in matrix form.

Usage

randn(dim1, dim2 = NULL)

Arguments

dim1

The dimension of the matrix (if square), otherwise the number of rows.

dim2

The number of columns, if different from the number of rows.

Value

Matrix of random generated samples.

See also

Other MATLAB: cell(), diag_matlab(), feval(), fileparts(), isempty(), ones(), rand(), size(), tic(), toc(), zeros()

Examples


randn(2,3)
#>            [,1]      [,2]       [,3]
#> [1,] -0.1056558  1.613284  0.6253141
#> [2,]  1.4898955 -1.623811 -0.7983959

randn(5)
#>             [,1]       [,2]       [,3]       [,4]       [,5]
#> [1,] -2.00454302 -0.8669026  2.2927026 -0.2468592 -0.8973077
#> [2,]  1.41783276  1.8538769 -1.9795730 -1.0357461 -0.4940153
#> [3,]  1.21293195  0.9119217  0.9319057 -1.1906234  1.3887291
#> [4,]  0.99323055 -0.7318803  0.3306204 -1.3221883  1.7442997
#> [5,] -0.04224099 -0.2358161  0.9562781  0.3576470  0.2759333