[R] Truncated MVN RNG?

Prof Brian D Ripley ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Sat Aug 25 08:35:58 CEST 2001


On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, Joe Stauffer wrote:

> Is there a package or code that generates data from a truncated multivariate
> normal distribution?

Not sure what `truncated' means here.  However, at a guess it is a normal
distribution restricted to a sub-region of R^d, and that's easy via mvrnorm
in package MASS wrapped in rejection sampling.

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