Python: Random number generator with mean and Standard Deviation

Question

I need to know how to generate 1000 random numbers between 500 and 600 that has a mean = 550 and standard deviation = 30 in python.

import pylab
import rand         


        

Answer 1

You are looking for stats.truncnorm:

import scipy.stats as stats

a, b = 500, 600
mu, sigma = 550, 30
dist = stats.truncnorm((a - mu) / sigma, (b - mu) / sigma, loc=mu, scale=sigma)

values = dist.rvs(1000)