Hi: I was wondering why Marsaglia's new ziggurat method for generating deviates from the standard normal distribution has not been implemented in the R base package. I know that it is available in SuppDists pacakage of Bob Wheeler, as "rziggurat". According my timing tests, it is about 6 to 7 times faster (on a Pentium 2.4 MHz) machine than the default Inversion method used in R base package.
thanks, Ravi. ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
