How to generate samples from a cauchy distribution
For an assignment I have to draw samples of different sizes from a Cauchy distribution in order to show that as the sample size increases, the mean does not tend to any number (therefore the mean does not exist). However, I have been having trouble trying to figure out how to properly create my Cauchy distribution.
Knowing that a cauchy distribution is simply a variable computed using the ratio of two independent standard normal variables, I created two standard normal variables and then divided them to create this new Cauchy variable. I then found the sample mean, and repeated the process for sample sizes of 10, 100, 500, 1000, 5000, and 10,000.
The following code is the same process that I used for each sample size:
a_c1= randn(10,1)
a_c2= randn(10,1)
a_c1ovrc2=a_c1/a_c2
a_c1ovrc2( :, ~any(a_c1ovrc2,1) )= [] %in order to delete all the unnecessary zero columns(I don't understand why they were created in the first place)
a_c1ovrc2_m = mean(a_c1ovrc2)
The above table are the values i obtained after completing each operation separately. I don’t feel like this accurately shows that the Cauchy distribution has no mean. Any advice as to what I might be doing wrong would be sincerely appreciated!
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a_c1ovrc2( :, ~any(a_c1ovrc2,1) )= []“in order to delete all the unnecessary zero columns(I don’t understand why they were created in the first place)”
They came from the preceding line
a_c1ovrc2=a_c1/a_c2;HINT: See
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