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I need to get a random distribution of numbers to simulate a series of events
that will occur between 44%-72% of the time on a weekly basis over the course of a year. The high and low ends of this range will occur much less often than the middle of the range, and I want the random numbers to refelct this. To explain by example, say a person is flipping a coin, but the coin is rigged to be heads slightly more often than tails, say on average 55% of the time. You toss this coin 100 times every week, some weeks it will be heads 56% of the time, others 70% of the time, others 45%. However, most of the weeks the percentage of heads will be between 50% and 60% of the time, and less frequently it will be heads in the 44-49% or 61-72% ranges. Is there a way to set up RANDBETWEEN so that it gives random numbers but they are weighted to return some numbers more frequently than others, i.e., it returns 52-60 70% of the time and 44-51 or 59-72 the remaining 30% of the time? Thanks for your help. Hope this wasn't too long. |
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