1## Copyright (C) 1995, 1996, 1997, 2005, 2007, 2008 Kurt Hornik
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20## @deftypefn {Function File} {} normal_rnd (@var{m}, @var{v}, @var{r}, @var{c})
21## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} normal_rnd (@var{m}, @var{v}, @var{sz})
22## Return an @var{r} by @var{c} or @code{size (@var{sz})} matrix of
23## random samples from the normal distribution with parameters @var{m}
24## and @var{v}. Both @var{m} and @var{v} must be scalar or of size
27## If @var{r} and @var{c} are omitted, the size of the result matrix is
28## the common size of @var{m} and @var{v}.
31## Author: KH <Kurt.Hornik@wu-wien.ac.at>
32## Description: Random deviates from the normal distribution
34## Deprecated in version 3.0
36function rnd = normal_rnd (varargin)
38 persistent warned = false;
41 warning ("Octave:deprecated-function",
42 "normal_rnd is obsolete and will be removed from a future version of Octave; please use normrnd instead");
46 varargin{2} = sqrt (varargin{2});
49 rnd = normrnd (varargin{:});
