How to generate fake population (ie. not sample) data?
2009/3/4 Thomas Lumley <tlumley at u.washington.edu>:
On Wed, 4 Mar 2009, David Winsemius wrote:
In what ways is rnorm not a satisfactory answer?
My guess was that CB wants to generate a finite population whose mean and variance are specified, which would involve rnorm() followed by centering and scaling.
Exactly. Being an R novice, I was thinking more of built-in functions; but I see now it's straightforward enough to do.