Generating Heavy and Light Tailed Normal Variates

There is no such thing as "heavy and light tailed normal variates."
The normal distribution is normal, period.

Ask this on stats.stackexchange.com. It is about statistics not R, and
a sensible answer heavily depends on the context you have in mind.

Cheers,
Bert




Bert Gunter

"The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along
and sticking things into it."
-- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip )

Hi all,

I need to generate heavy and light-tailed normal variates separately for
demonstration purposes. I figure for the heavy-tailed, I will just generate
variates from a t distribution with low degrees of freedom. How does one
generate light-tailed normal variates?

Thanks,

Dan

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