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SQL Serve random standard normal distribution


RANDSNORMAL

Updated: 31 March 2014


Use the table-valued function RANDSNORMAL to generate a sequence of random numbers from the standard normal distribution.
Syntax
SELECT * FROM [wctMath].[wct].[RANDSNORMAL](
   <@Rows, int,>)
Arguments
@Rows
the number of rows to generate. @Rows must be of the type int or of a type that implicitly converts to int.
Return Types
RETURNS TABLE (
      [Seq] [int] NULL,
      [X] [float] NULL
)
Remarks
·         If @Rows is less than 1 then no rows are returned.
Examples
In this example we create a sequence 1,000,000 truncated random numbers from the standard normal distribution and COUNT the results. Elementary statistics leads us to expect the results to be distributed approximately like this:

X
COUNT
-4
31
-3
1318
-2
21400
-1
135905
0
682689
1
135905
2
21400
3
1318
4
31

SELECT
      X,
      COUNT(*) as [COUNT]
FROM (
      SELECT
            wct.TRUNC(x,0) as x
      FROM
            wct.RANDSNORMAL(1000000)
      )n
GROUP BY
      X
ORDER BY
      1

This produces the following result. Your results will be different.

X
COUNT
-4
33
-3
1346
-2
21517
-1
135772
0
682966
1
135738
2
21293
3
1308
4
26
5
1

 

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