How to make a random number generator with a normal distribution in matlab

Hey How to make a random number generator. I want numbers to be from some x-y range, e.g. 1-5. so that I can choose how many of these results should be N = k np. N = 150 and so that I can choose the distribution of these results, eg normal distribution, oblique. I need to generate results with different distributions. So, for example, 160 results with a normal, oblique distribution, etc. so that I could then throw them into my model. How to do it ?

Answer 1

[Sean de Wolski]

Use makedist to make a distribution object with the appropriate parameters and then call random on it"

https://www.mathworks.com/help/releases/R2017b/stats/makedist.html