From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Tue Feb 24 22:19:32 1998
Subject: documentation question: rand
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: Thomas Hoffmann <hoffmann at ehmgs2 dot et dot tu-dresden dot de>
Cc: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 22:20:30 -0600

On 24-Feb-1998, Thomas Hoffmann <hoffmann at ehmgs2 dot et dot tu-dresden dot de> wrote:

| The (internal) function rand (info says: LOADABLE function) has two
| options called
| "normal" and "uniform" which I did not find in the docs.

You should use the rand function for uniform distributions, and the
randn function for normal distributions.  The "normal" and "uniform"
options are for compatibility with older versions of Matlab (3.5 and
before, I think) that didn't have a randn function.

jwe