Message-ID: <x28ygcjilc.fsf@biostat.ku.dk>
Date: 2004-05-01T17:07:06Z
From: Peter Dalgaard
Subject: Generating Lognormal Random variables (PR#6843)
In-Reply-To: <20040501150028.26C00EC44@slim.kubism.ku.dk>
anthony@stat.sdu.dk writes:
> 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)
Eh?
> all(rlnorm(1000000, meanlog = 0.6931472, sdlog = 1) >= 0)
[1] TRUE
Try reproducing with a fixed random seed so that others have a chance
to check.
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