Distribution name 'Lognormal' is unrecognized

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Joy Shen
Joy Shen on 29 Sep 2025 at 22:10
Answered: Walter Roberson on 29 Sep 2025 at 23:32
I previously could run this line of code, however now it seems that makedist does not recognize it as I get the error, "Distribution name 'Lognormal' is unrecognized." The line of code is simply:
pd_frag{iDG}{iDM}=makedist("Lognormal",log(lam(iDM,iDG)),zeta);
when I check makedist, I only see six distributions loguniform, multinomial, normal, piecewiselinear, triangular, and uniform. I checked license('test', 'Statistics_Toolbox') and I get a 1 in return, so I'm assuming that's not the issue. My version is: MATLAB Version: 24.2.0.2773142 (R2024b) Update 2
Any ideas? Thanks
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Walter Roberson
Walter Roberson on 29 Sep 2025 at 22:46
What do you get if you use
prob.ProbabilityDistributionRegistry.list('parametric')
?
Try also
makedist('-reset')
and then try your makedist again.
Joy Shen
Joy Shen on 29 Sep 2025 at 23:04
the first also gives me the same 6 distributions I listed, and nothing seemed to happen when i did the second line of code. I restarted Matlab and tried the reset line again and no change.

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Walter Roberson
Walter Roberson on 29 Sep 2025 at 23:32
It sounds as if you have Simulink Design Optimization installed, getting https://www.mathworks.com/help/sldo/ref/makedist.html but that you do not have Statistics and Machine Learning toolbox installed.

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