[R] Double Exponential

[ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk]

ifelse(runif(n) > 0.5, 1, -1) * rexp(n)

On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, Jason Parcon wrote:

> To whom it may concern:
> 
> I just would like to know how can one generate a set of random values from the 
> double exponential distribution.  

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