Message-ID: <4250906F.4080607@acelerate.com>
Date: 2005-04-04T00:55:11Z
From: Kjetil Halvorsen
Subject: 'skewing' a normal random variable
In-Reply-To: <200504032306.j33N6c05010611@hypatia.math.ethz.ch>
Ashraf Chaudhary wrote:
>Hi All;
>The following question is directed more to statisticians on the list.
>Suppose I have a normal random variable. Is there a transformation that I
>can apply so that the new variable is slightly positively skewed.
>I greatly appreciate your help.
>Ashraf
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look at the sn package on CRAN --- skew normal distributions, m
and the web page of its author.
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