R help - Aug 2006 - Simulate an Overdispersed(extra-variance poisson process)?

Is there a function in R comparable to rpois that can simulate random
variables from an overdispersed poisson distribution? If there is not a
function any ideas/references on how to program one?

thanks,

Spencer Jones
Graduate Student, NLM Fellow
Dept. Biomedical Informatics
University of Utah

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On Fri, 2006-08-04 at 10:33 -0600, Spencer Jones wrote:
> Is there a function in R comparable to rpois that can simulate random
> variables from an overdispersed poisson distribution? If there is not a
> function any ideas/references on how to program one?
Take a look at

  ?rnbinom

or

  library(MASS)
  ?rnegbin


HTH,

Marc Schwartz