Excel uses the function RAND() to return a random and uniformly distributed number between 0 and 1, every time the worksheet is calculated. If you are analyzing how fluctuations in sales will ...

So, to fix the random numbers you generated (I used the RAND function in my example below), select the cells containing those ...

I want a random number, between 0 and 1 (for the purposes, this is JavaScript, but that shouldn't matter so much). But I don't just want a uniform distribution of numbers, I want something skewed ...

Some applications, however, require the generation of random numbers that aren't uniformly distributed. Instead, they obey a predefined, arbitrary distribution.

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