[R] Generating Heavy and Light Tailed Normal Variates

[Bert Gunter]

There is no such thing as "heavy and light tailed normal variates."
The normal distribution is normal, period.

Ask this on stats.stackexchange.com. It is about statistics not R, and
a sensible answer heavily depends on the context you have in mind.

Cheers,
Bert




Bert Gunter

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and sticking things into it."
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On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 6:45 AM, Dan Abner <dan.abner99 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I need to generate heavy and light-tailed normal variates separately for
> demonstration purposes. I figure for the heavy-tailed, I will just generate
> variates from a t distribution with low degrees of freedom. How does one
> generate light-tailed normal variates?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dan
>
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