I am a beginner in running small simulations in Mathematica and I am trying to code a loop to compute the expected value of a piecewise function. To do so, I am trying first to make a conditional statement work inside a loop, without success.
I cannot make the conditional statement work inside the loop, which seems silly. In the code, the variable j can be either higher or lower than 3, but the output of the conditional statement in the code does not vary for different values of j. Can someone pinpoint the error? Thanks!
n=10; For[z = 0; j = 1, j < n + 1, j++, Print[j]; z = RandomVariate[NormalDistribution[0, 1], n]; if[j < 3, x = j, x = 0]; Print[x]; ]
