As implied above, SAS can generate random normally-distributed numbers from random
uniform numbers, but this would require an awkward transformation. The function RANNOR
provides a random observation from a normal distribution with mean 0 and standard deviation
1. To create a random observation from a normal distribution with mean m and standard
deviation s, multiply the result from the RANNOR function by s, then add m. The following
example creates 50 observations from a normal distribution with mean 74 and standard