Dear All I would like to know whether it is possible with R to define a discrete random variable different from the ones already defined inside R and generate random numbers from that user-defined distribution. Thanks in advance, Paul
Paul Smith <phhs80 at gmail.com> writes:> Dear All > > I would like to know whether it is possible with R to define a > discrete random variable different from the ones already defined > inside R and generate random numbers from that user-defined > distribution.Yes. One generic way is to specify the quantile function (as in qpois() etc.) and do qfun(runif(N)). -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics 2200 Cph. N (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - (p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk) FAX: (+45) 35327907