Take a look at the `rstable' function in the "stable" package to simulate random deviates from a stable distribution.
Ravi. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------- Ravi Varadhan, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, The Center on Aging and Health Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology Johns Hopkins University Ph: (410) 502-2619 Fax: (410) 614-9625 Email: rvarad...@jhmi.edu Webpage: http://www.jhsph.edu/agingandhealth/People/Faculty_personal_pages/Varadhan.h tml ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------- -----Original Message----- From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of inquil Sent: Wednesday, October 07, 2009 6:56 AM To: r-help@r-project.org Subject: [R] Simulate negative skewed, fat-tailed distribution Hi guys Is there a way in R to simulate/generate random numbers from a negative skewed and fat tailed distribution ? I would like to simulate a set of (discrete) data. Regards, Carlos Carlos http://www.nabble.com/file/p25783889/graph.png graph.png -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Simulate-negative-skewed%2C-fat-tailed-distribution-tp 25783889p25783889.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list 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. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list 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.
