Hi, I am a new user and this is a basic question. I have read the posting guidelines too. So if this more appropriate for a statistics forum I will ask them. I have a socket server and client and the bytes are piped to graphite which is a graphing library. The intention is to understand what distribution the data fits into - server's side - and try to extrapolate. I have some material that explains the basics of this. Have I understood this correctly? There is a server distribution(after receiving) and client distribution(while sending) ? 1. Are there ways to use R - based on a book or material - to help with data generation simulation - client's side - so that I simulate a particular distribution ? Is this the right way to simulate random bytes ? What kind of random byte generation techniques should I read up on ( book or material ) ? 2. What should I read up on to extrapolate ? I am already referring to some capacity planning books. So this is purely from the perspective of statistics. Maybe I should read a book on 'Data fit techniques' or one on random number generations. I have collected a list of books but I am unable to home in on them because I need only basic maths to start with. Thanks, Mohan DISCLAIMER:\ ===============...{{dropped:31}}