[R] rnorm??

Scholz, Fritz Fritz.Scholz at boeing.com
Tue Feb 22 00:45:06 CET 2005


I am wondering whether there is a bug in rnorm.
When generating rnorm(1000000) and counting 
the cases > 4 and the cases < (-4) I get rather
unexpectedly low counts for the latter. The problem goes away
when using qnorm(runif(1000000)).

Fritz Scholz, PhD
Applied Statistics Group
Boeing Phantom Works
fritz.scholz at pss.boeing.com
425-865-3623
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