[Rd] bug with rpois (PR#9106)

[Thomas Lumley]

On Thu, 27 Jul 2006, Ben Bolker wrote:

> <dolive <at> math.siu.edu> writes:
>
>>
>>
>> The R poisson random generator rpois appears to have a bug for
>> theta 10 or larger. The sample mean of the pseudo variates is too
>> small: sample mean approx theta - 0.5.
>>
>
>  Certainly fixed by 2.3.1:
>

In fact, fixed in 1.2.0, in December 2000.

 	-thomas

Thomas Lumley			Assoc. Professor, Biostatistics
tlumley at u.washington.edu	University of Washington, Seattle