I am trying to simulate time series data for an ar(1) and ma(1) process. I want the error term to have either a t distribution with 1 degree of freedom or a normal distribution with mean=0 and sd=1. Here is my code: error.model=function(n){rnorm(n,mean=0, sd=1)} data<-arima.sim(model=list(ar=c(0.1)), n=1000, n.start=200, start.innov=rnorm(200,mean=0, sd=1), rand.gen=error.model ) data error.model=function(n){rnorm(n,mean=0, sd=1)} data<-arima.sim(model=list(ma=c(0.1)), n=1000, n.start=200, start.innov=rnorm(200,mean=0, sd=1), rand.gen=error.model ) data error.model=function(n){rt(n,1)} data<-arima.sim(model=list(ma=c(0.1)), n=1000, n.start=200, start.innov=rt(200,1), rand.gen=error.model ) data error.model=function(n){rt(n,1)} data<-arima.sim(model=list(ar=c(0.1)), n=1000, n.start=200, start.innov=rt(200,1), rand.gen=error.model ) data My question is: am I actually accomplishing my goal??? Thank you, Neill