Hi Fred Doesn't sftools do this - from 'man sftools':
CALC F COL Fsimulated = COL Fcalc ran_g 10 * + Create a column with label Fsimulated which contains the value of column Fcalc plus 10 times a random number from a Gaussian distribution with average = 0 and variance = 1 Cheers -- Ian On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 12:40 PM, Vellieux Frederic <frederic.velli...@ibs.fr> wrote: > Before re-inventing the wheel... > > Is there anywhere some software (freely available software, I mean) that can > add some Gaussian noise to data. The data is currently stored in a data > column in an mtz (not phase data, but "amplitudes", "sigma values"...) but > can be exported to another format if required. > > Before writing a computer program to do this, does anyone know if this can > be done without writing any code. If it can then obviously I won't write new > code. > > Thanks, > > Fred. >