And similarly, you can use other INV functions with RAND() generate
random numbers that follow other distributions. Unfortunately, Pre-2003
INV functions are too crude to do this well (which also means that ATP
does it poorly).

Jerry

barrfly wrote:

unfortunately no. The rand() function only delivers a random number
that is uniformly distributed between 0 and 1. You can use the
norminv(rand()) function combination to create a normally distributed
random number with a mean and stdev of your choosing.