Thank you that is helpful. The data set is normally distributed, however the distribution is skewed so the probability of each number being chosen is not equal, therefore the 6-sided die example would not work. I have a table created with the range of numbers available to be chosen for the first number listed out in one column and the probability of each of those numbers being chosen in a 2nd column. I have done this for each of the 4 drawings. If I used rand('table', 0.1,0.2,0.5,0.2) for example but the numbers available starts with 15 and goes to 40, would this return 15 with a probability of 0.1 etc.? I feel like rand('Normal',theta,sigma) would not work for this since the distribution is skewed and not perfectly normal, but please correct me if I'm wrong. Thanks
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