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Full_Name: Anthony Gichangi Version: 1.90 OS: Windows XP Pro Submission from: (NULL) (130.225.131.206) The function rlnorm generates negative values for lognormal distribution. x- rlnorm(1000, meanlog = 0.6931472, sdlog = 1) Regards Anthony

rlnorm takes two 'shaping' parameters: meanlog and sdlog. meanlog would appear from the documentation to be the log of the mean. eg if the desired mean is 1 then meanlog=0. So to generate random values that fit a lognormal distribution I would do this: rlnorm(N , meanlog = log(mean) , sdlog = log(sd)) But when I check the mean I don't get it when sdlog>0. Interestingly I

Dear all, Is there a way to generate K numbers of integer (K = 10^6). The maximum value of the integer is 200,000 and minimum is 1. And the occurrences of this integer follows a lognormal distribution. - Gundala Viswanath Jakarta - Indonesia

Hello, I tried to fit a lognormal distribution by using optim. But sadly the output seems to be incorrect. Who can tell me where the "bug" is? test = rlnorm(100,5,3) logL = function(parm, x,...) -sum(log(dlnorm(x,parm,...))) start = list(meanlog=5, sdlog=3) optim(start,logL,x=test)$par Carsten. [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Hi, folks, As seen in the following codes: x1=rlnorm(10) x2=rlnorm(10,mean=2) y=rlnorm(10,mean=10)### Fake dataset linmod=lm(log(y)~log(x1)+log(x2)) After the regression, I would like to know the mean of y. Since log(y) is normal and y is lognormal, I need to know the mean and variance of log(y) first. I tried mean (y) and mean(linmod), but either one is what I want. Any tips? Thanks in

Hi, Does anyone know what the mean value of a lognormal distribution in base-2 is? I am simulating stochastic population growth and if I were working in base-e, I would do:lambda <- 1.1 #multiplicative growth rates <- 0.6 #stochasticity (std. dev)lognormal <- rlnorm(100000, log(lambda) - (s^2)/2, s)## or lognormal <- exp( rnorm( 100000, log(lambda) - (s^2)/2,

I am trying to fit a lognormal distribution to a set of data and test its goodness of fit with regard to predicted values. I managed to get so far: > y <- c(2,6,2,3,6,7,6,10,11,6,12,9,15,11,15,8,9,12,6,5) > library(MASS) > fitdistr(y,"lognormal",start=list(meanlog=0.1,sdlog=0.1)) meanlog sdlog 1.94810515 0.57091032 (0.12765945) (0.09034437) But I would

Dear All,   I have a questions I would like to ask about and wonder if you have any thoughts to make it work in R.   1. I work in the field of medicine where physiologic variables are often simulated, and they can not have negative values. Most often the assumption is made to simulate this parameters with a normal distribution but in the "log-domain" to avoid from negative values to be

Hi everyone I have the following problem: My dataframe has 3 variables: ID, Year and and an outcome variable. The dataframe contains repeated measurements because the subjects filled out a questionnaire every year. The time span covers 2 years. Now I want to check if there is a significant change in the outcome over the 2 years with a paired wilcox.test. The problem: Not every subject

I'm trying to produce empirical bayes estimates based on the lognormal model in disease mapping Is there a way this can be done in R? thanks Oarabile

Hello, I have a question regarding the use of an offset term with survreg(), in the Survival library. In particular, I am trying to figure out on what scale the offset term should be. Here's a simple example with no censoring and no coefficients: --------- y = rlnorm(1000, meanlog = 10, sdlog = 2) delta = rep(1, 1000) int = rep(1, 1000) survreg(Surv(y,delta)~offset(10*int), dist =

Dear all R users, Please forgive me if my question is too trivial. Suppose I have two variables, (x,y) which is log-normally distributed with expected value (mu1, mu2) and some variance-covariance matrix. Now I want to draw a random sample of size 1000 from this distribution. Is there any function available to do this? Thanks and regards, Megh

I am trying to run a confirmatory factor analysis using the SEM package. My data are ordinal. I have read http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox/Misc/sem/SEM-paper.pdf. When I apply the hetcor function, I receive the following error: Error in checkmvArgs(lower = lower, upper = upper, mean = mean, corr = corr, : at least one element of 'lower' is larger than 'upper' Example:

I am trying to plot a lognormal density curve on top of an existing histogram. Can anybody suggest a simple way to do this? Even if someone could just explain how to plot a regular normal density curve on top of an existing histogram, it would be a big help. Also, is there some way to search through the R-help archives other than simple browsing? Thank you so much. Your help and time is greatly

Hi! I 've a problem to have a lognorm distribution with mean=1 and var (or sigma)=1. rlnorm(1000,0,0) rlnorm(1000,1,1) rlnorm(1000,0,1) .... ? Can you help me?

Dear R-helpers, I was testing the truncgof CRAN package, found something that looked like a bug, and did my job: contacted the maintainer. But he did not reply, so I am resending my query here. I installed package truncgof and run the example for function ad.test. I got the following output: set.seed(123) treshold <- 10 xc <- rlnorm(100, 2, 2) # complete sample xt <- xc[xc >=

Hello, I was interested in trying to write an R script to calculate a UCL for a lognormal distribution using the Chebyshev Inequality — MVUE Approach (based on EPA’s guidance found in http://www.epa.gov/oswer/riskassessment/pdf/ucl.pdf). This looks like it should be straight forward, but I am need to calculate an MVUE for the population mean and an MVUE for the population variance, which requires

Hi R lovers! I'd like to know how to use the parameter 'start' in the function fitdistr() obviously I have to provide the initial value of the parameter to optimize except in the case of a certain set of given distribution Indeed according to the help file for fitdistr " For the following named distributions, reasonable starting values will be computed if `start'

Hi all, I am trying to plot a weighted density plot for two different types and want to show the data points on the x axis. The code is as follows. The data points are very concentrated. Is there a better way to present it( should I set the alpha value or something else)? Thanks! YL library(ggplot2) x <- rnorm(10000) a <- rnorm(5000) b <- rnorm(5000) weights.x <- abs(a/sum(a))

Dear R-helpers I have a question related to logistic GAM models. Consider the following example: # Load package library(mgcv) # Simulation of dataset n <- 1000 set.seed(0) age <- rnorm(n, 50, 10) blood.pressure <- rnorm(n, 120, 15) cholesterol <- rnorm(n, 200, 25) sex <- factor(sample(c('female','male'), n,TRUE)) L <-