Box Muller Transformation

[trash]

Let X and Y be independent random variables from the bivariate normal distribution where

X ~ N(μ1= 15,σ1^2= 5) and Y ~ N(μ2= 10,σ2^2= 3). Generate 10000 random numbers for X and Y using the

Box Muller transformation.

-Print a histogram for both X and Y and supply the appropriate descriptive statistics to verify your

requirements.

-Print a Contour and Surface plot in SAS.

I don't know how to begin. I can't seem to find anything helpful for Box Muller Transformations coding. 

[PGStats]

You could try looking up Box-Muller on Wikipedia, for a start.

[PaigeMiller]

You could also search SAS Help for "box muller". Hint: it's in there!

[Rick_SAS]

The Box-Mueller transformation is a way to generate a random normal variates from two uniform variates. 

1. Learn how to generate uniform random variates in SAS in the DATA step.

2. Use DATA step programming to combine the uniform variates to form a normal variate.

I suggest looking into PROC UNIVARIATE when you are ready to generate descriptive statistics that indicate that the sample statistics for X and Y are close to the parameters in the population.

For the contour plot and surface plot, I suggest you look at PROC KDE, which can produce bivariate plots of density.