Generate a random data with fix mean

I have a matrix with 360 elements and I need to expand it to 3600 elements with the same mean and standard deviation.

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Wayne King
Wayne King on 7 Jan 2014
Edited: Wayne King on 7 Jan 2014
You don't say the size of your matrix, you just tell us the number of elements. You also do not give us any information about the distribution -- is it Gaussian?
Xstart = randn(360,1);
meanX = mean(Xstart);
stdX = std(Xstart);
Xend = [Xstart ; stdX*randn(3600-360,1)+meanX];

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Thank you very much
Of course repmat() also meets the requirements (or lack thereof).
vector3600 = repmat(vector360, [1, 10]);

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The matrix is [1,360] and the distribution is Gaussian
Thank you very much

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