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How I can generate a random sample from a mixed norml distribution? (i.e. a mixed normal distribution in the form f(x)=.6*N(1,5)+.4*N(2,3) in which N(A,B) is a normal distribution with mean A and variance B.) -- Free e-mail accounts at http://zworg.com

I would be very grateful for any help from members of this list for what might be a simple problem... We are trying to simulate the behaviour of a clinical measurement in a series of computer experiments. This is simple enough to do in R if we assume the measurements to be Gaussian, but their empirical distribution has a much higher peak at the mean and the distribution has much longer tails.