MATLAB: How to fix the seed in the trnd function

Question

Dear all,

I use matlab 2012 and I want to generate values from a student t distribution. I use the function "trnd". HOw can I fix the see in this function

thanks

Answer 1

I'm not sure why you want to do that since you can use rng() without using the legacy mode by removing those calls and using rng() instead.

But if you are insisting, then you have to do something like:

rng(sd,'v5uniform')

for calls to rand()

and

rng(sd,'v5normal')

for randn(), where sd is the seed.

You should enter

>>help rng

at the command line and read the documentation linked from

Updating Your Random Number Generator Syntax.

This is all explained there in detail.