Bug in rnorm. (PR#1664)
Peter Dalgaard BSA <p.dalgaard@biostat.ku.dk> writes:
rolf@math.unb.ca writes:
There appears to be a mild bug, or at least a deficiency, in rnorm. The bug becomes apparent when one looks at extremes of the squares of the values generated by rnorm; rnorm is not generating quite enough extreme values. The R version that I am using is 1.4.1; I never got around to installing 1.5.0, and now since 1.5.1 is about to come out .... However, checking the 1.5.0 release notes revealed no mention of fixing a bug in rnorm.
...and I see the effect too with an r-patched from a few days back.
No I do not! My quick check code took the square of the max rather than the max of the square... With your script, I get a nice horizontal line both with 1.4.0 and 1.5.0-patched. (RedHat Linux 7.1 on a PC)
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