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
Generating Lognormal Random variables (PR#6843)
2 messages · anthony@stat.sdu.dk, Peter Dalgaard
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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