Message-ID: <744922.39481.qm@web120516.mail.ne1.yahoo.com>
Date: 2011-01-11T12:37:12Z
From: Ed Keith
Subject: gennerating skewed random numbers
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=m3szm8-aO=iVO7o0qnTQJOdn9yY-C5NDfh4Gh@mail.gmail.com>
This is not exactly an R specific question, but I think the people on this list can probably help.
I'm working on a simulation. In the model I have the first three moments of the distributions of the variables. I know how to generate a random number from a distribution given the first two moments assuming the third moment is 0. But I do not know how to generate a number drawn from a distribution with a nonzero third monument.
If someone could point me to a good reference I would appreciate it.
Thank you in advance,
-EdK
Ed Keith
e_d_k at yahoo.com
Blog: edkeith.blogspot.com