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<title xml-lang="en-US" id="tit">Fill Random Numbers</title>
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<body>
<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="hid/modules/scalc/ui/randomnumbergenerator/RandomNumberGeneratorDialog" id="bm_id3150791" localize="false"/>
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<paragraph id="hd_id2308201415431520596" role="heading" xml-lang="en-US" level="1">Fill Random Numbers</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_id2308201415431525817" role="paragraph" xml-lang="en-US"><ahelp hid=".">Populate a cell range with automatically generated pseudo random numbers with the selected distribution function and its parameters.</ahelp></paragraph>
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<bookmark_value>fill range;random numbers</bookmark_value>
<bookmark_value>random rumbers;fill range</bookmark_value>
<bookmark_value>random rumbers;distribution</bookmark_value>
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<section id="howtoget">
<paragraph id="par_id2308201415500176457" role="paragraph" xml-lang="en-US">Choose <item type="menuitem">Sheet - Fill Cells - Random Number</item></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="hd_id2308201415431233475" role="heading" xml-lang="en-US" level="2">Data</paragraph>
<paragraph id="hd_id2308201415431883475" role="heading" xml-lang="en-US" level="3">Cell Range</paragraph>
<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="hid/modules/scalc/ui/randomnumbergenerator/cell-range-edit" id="bm_id3150792" localize="false"/>
<paragraph id="par_id2308201415431811111" role="paragraph" xml-lang="en-US"><ahelp hid=".">Define the range of cells to fill with random numbers. If you have previously selected a range, it will be displayed here.</ahelp></paragraph>
<paragraph id="hd_id2308201415431850229" role="heading" xml-lang="en-US" level="2">Random number generator</paragraph>
<paragraph id="hd_id2308201415431880497" role="heading" xml-lang="en-US" level="3">Distribution</paragraph>
<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="hid/modules/scalc/ui/randomnumbergenerator/distribution-combo" id="bm_id2308201416384294287" localize="false"/>
<paragraph id="par_id2308201415431874867" role="paragraph" xml-lang="en-US"><ahelp hid=".">The distribution function for the random number generator.</ahelp></paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_id2308201416441240058" role="paragraph" xml-lang="en-US">Valid distributions function and their parameters are</paragraph>


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<paragraph id="par_id230820141543181813" role="tablehead" xml-lang="en-US">Distribution</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="par_id2308201415431868807" role="tablehead" xml-lang="en-US">Parameters</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="par_id2308201415431869872" role="tablecontent" xml-lang="en-US">Uniform</paragraph>
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<listitem>
<paragraph id="par_id2308201415431850857" role="ul_item" xml-lang="en-US"><emph>Minimum:</emph> The minimum value of the sample.</paragraph>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<paragraph id="par_id2308201415431859422" role="ul_item" xml-lang="en-US"><emph>Maximum:</emph> The maximum value of the sample.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="par_id2308201415431848733" role="tablecontent" xml-lang="en-US">Uniform Integer</paragraph>
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<list type="unordered">
<listitem>
<paragraph id="par_id2308201415431813421" role="ul_item" xml-lang="en-US"><emph>Minimum:</emph> The minimum value of the sample.</paragraph>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<paragraph id="par_id2308201415431821789" role="ul_item" xml-lang="en-US"><emph>Maximum:</emph> The maximum value of the sample.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="par_id2308201415431870493" role="tablecontent" xml-lang="en-US">Normal</paragraph>
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<list type="unordered">
<listitem>
<paragraph id="par_id2308201415431973994" role="ul_item" xml-lang="en-US"><emph>Mean:</emph> The mean of the Normal distribution.</paragraph>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<paragraph id="par_id2308201415431951090" role="ul_item" xml-lang="en-US"><emph>Standard Deviation:</emph> The standard deviation of the Normal distribution.</paragraph>
</listitem></list>
<paragraph id="par_id2308201415431990992" role="warning" xml-lang="en-US">The mean and standard deviation of the numbers generated may not equal the Mean and Standard Deviation inserted in the dialog.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="par_id2308201415431912748" role="tablecontent" xml-lang="en-US">Cauchy</paragraph>
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<list type="unordered">
<listitem>
<paragraph id="par_id2308201415431923135" role="ul_item" xml-lang="en-US"><emph>Median:</emph> the median of the data or location parameter.</paragraph>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<paragraph id="par_id2308201415431997296" role="ul_item" xml-lang="en-US"><emph>Sigma:</emph> the scale parameter.</paragraph>
</listitem></list>
<paragraph id="par_id2308201415431971536" role="warning" xml-lang="en-US">The median and sigma of the generated numbers may not equal the data inserted in the dialog.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="par_id2308201415431962173" role="tablecontent" xml-lang="en-US">Bernoulli</paragraph>
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<tablecell>
<list type="unordered">
<listitem>
<paragraph id="par_id2308201415431994157" role="ul_item" xml-lang="en-US"><emph>p Value:</emph> The probability of success.</paragraph>
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<tablecell>
<paragraph id="par_id2308201415431979367" role="tablecontent" xml-lang="en-US">Binomial</paragraph>
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<tablecell>
<list type="unordered">
<listitem>
<paragraph id="par_id2308201415431958372" role="ul_item" xml-lang="en-US"><emph>p Value:</emph> The probability of success of each trial.</paragraph>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<paragraph id="par_id2308201415431919718" role="ul_item" xml-lang="en-US"><emph>Number of trials:</emph> the number of trials of the experiment.</paragraph>
</listitem></list>
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<tablecell>
<paragraph id="par_id2308201415431985648" role="tablecontent" xml-lang="en-US">Chi Squared</paragraph>
</tablecell>
<tablecell>
<list type="unordered">
<listitem>
<paragraph id="par_id230820141543194944" role="ul_item" xml-lang="en-US"><emph>Nu Value: </emph>a positive integer that specifies the number of degrees of freedom.</paragraph>
</listitem></list>
</tablecell>
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<tablecell>
<paragraph id="par_id2308201415431935636" role="tablecontent" xml-lang="en-US">Geometric</paragraph>
</tablecell>
<tablecell>
<list type="unordered">
<listitem>
<paragraph id="par_id2308201415431978150" role="ul_item" xml-lang="en-US"><emph>p Value:</emph> The probability of success of each trial.</paragraph>
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<tablecell>
<paragraph id="par_id230820141543197085" role="tablecontent" xml-lang="en-US">Negative Binomial</paragraph>
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<tablecell>
<list type="unordered">
<listitem>
<paragraph id="par_id2308201415431916718" role="ul_item" xml-lang="en-US"><emph>p Value:</emph> The probability of success of each trial.</paragraph>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<paragraph id="par_id2308201415431951891" role="ul_item" xml-lang="en-US"><emph>Number of trials:</emph> the number of trials of the experiment.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="hd_id2308201415431232932" role="heading" xml-lang="en-US" level="2">Options</paragraph>
<paragraph id="hd_id2308201415431832932" role="heading" xml-lang="en-US" level="3">Enable custom seed</paragraph>
<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="hid/modules/scalc/ui/randomnumbergenerator/enable-seed-check" id="bm_id3150793" localize="false"/>
<paragraph id="par_id2308201415431841782" role="paragraph" xml-lang="en-US"><ahelp hid=".">Set the initial value of the random number generator to a known value <emph>Seed.</emph></ahelp></paragraph>
<paragraph id="hd_id2308201415431881107" role="heading" xml-lang="en-US" level="3">Seed</paragraph>
<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="hid/modules/scalc/ui/randomnumbergenerator/seed-spin" id="bm_id3150794" localize="false"/>
<paragraph id="par_id2308201415431834837" role="paragraph" xml-lang="en-US"><ahelp hid=".">Value set to initiate the random number generator algorithm. It is used to initialize (seed) the random number generator in order to reproduce the same sequence of pseudorandom numbers. Specify a positive integer number (1, 2, ...) to produce a specific sequence, or leave the field blank if you don't need this particular feature.</ahelp></paragraph>
<paragraph id="hd_id2308201415431875641" role="heading" xml-lang="en-US" level="3">Enable rounding</paragraph>
<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="hid/modules/scalc/ui/randomnumbergenerator/enable-rounding-check" id="bm_id3150795" localize="false"/>
<paragraph id="par_id2308201415431822157" role="paragraph" xml-lang="en-US"><ahelp hid=".">Truncate the number to a given number of <emph>Decimal Places</emph>.</ahelp></paragraph>
<paragraph id="hd_id2308201415431826506" role="heading" xml-lang="en-US" level="3">Decimal places</paragraph>
<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="hid/modules/scalc/ui/randomnumbergenerator/decimal-places-spin" id="bm_id3150796" localize="false"/>
<paragraph id="par_id2308201415431820502" role="paragraph" xml-lang="en-US"><ahelp hid=".">Number of decimal places of the numbers generated.</ahelp></paragraph>
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