Repeat for loop until condition is met.

I am drawing random numbers within an interval. I know that in the end I want 20 of them, but only those that meet a condition, for example, generation between 1:10 and then only keeping those less than 5. I need to loop over this until 20 are found... I'm not allowed to just generate between 1:5 which would solve this unfortunately! I have something like this..

Number_req=20;
n = zeros(20,1); 
for k=1:Number_req 
 x=[];
  x=10*rand(1,1);
 if x(k)<= 10 
    n(k) = x
 else
     if x(k)>10
          break
     end
 end
end

[John BG]

who or what is not allowing you to just do the following

randi([1 4],1,20)

generating random numbers within [1:10] but not getting any within [5:10] is, if not considering time, exactly the same as generating random numbers within [1:4]

are you familiar with the Bayes theorem?

John BG

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Answer 1

[James Tursa]

It would be easier to use a while loop. E.g., modifying your code and replacing your for-loop with a while-loop:

% Insert your beginning stuff here
k = 1;
while k <= Number_req
    r = _______;  % insert your random number generation stuff here
    if( ____________ )  % Insert your test code for r here
        x(k) = r;
        k = k + 1;
    end
end

[Matlab User]

Thank you very much!