[R] 'skewing' a normal random variable

[Kjetil Brinchmann Halvorsen]

Ashraf Chaudhary wrote:

>Hi All;
>The following question is directed more to statisticians on the list.
>Suppose I have a normal random variable. Is there a transformation that I
>can apply so that the new variable is slightly positively skewed. 
>I greatly appreciate your help.
>Ashraf
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look at the sn package on CRAN --- skew normal distributions, m
and the web page of its author.

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