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Patrick
Opal | Level 21

@Ksharp wrote:

Patrick,

That is not rigorously random sample  yet .


@Ksharp

Why not? Isn't this randomly selecting a value between a start and an end value?

Ksharp
Super User

@Patrick

Maybe I was wrong. @Rick_SAS could shed a light for Patrick's question ?

Rick_SAS
SAS Super FREQ

Patrick's solution is an acceptance-rejection method for a truncated discrete uniform distribution. Depending on what the OP wants, he can use Patrick's solution as is, or he can imbed it in a DO-WHILE loop that continues to generate random numbers until a weekday in [2,6] is found.

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