On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 13:38:21 +0200 (CEST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote : > >Dear all, > >it looks like rhyper() gives wrong results compared to theory and compared >to sample() and rghyper(SuppDists).
I agree, these results look wrong. The mean also seems high: > set.seed(1) > K <- 100 > J <- 60 > N <- K+J > p <- K/N > n <- 50 > x <- rhyper(1000000,K,J,n) > mean(x) [1] 31.47323 > sd(x)/1000 [1] 0.002925523 > p*n [1] 31.25 > (mean(x) - p*n)/(sd(x)/1000) [1] 76.30568 Duncan Murdoch ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel