Hi Bert, Thank you for the response. Let me re-phrase:
What is the most efficient way to generate variates from a unimodal symmetric distribution that are leptokurtic or platykurtic in R? There does not appear to be a kurtosis parameter for rnorm(). Thanks all, Dan On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 10:15 AM, Bert Gunter <bgunter.4...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > > "The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along > and sticking things into it." > -- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip ) > > > On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 6:45 AM, Dan Abner <dan.abne...@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 > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/ > posting-guide.html > > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
