A FORTRAN program permits instructors to provide students with simulated research data. Such data sets enable the student to learn how statistical measures vary as a function of the data. The program allows the instructor to construct distributions having nonnormal shapes by modifying the familiar standard unit normal distribution. Values for producing distributions with different shapes are given.
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