Hi Benilton, I tried this. It sort of works, but the results are not very satisfactionary. The 3rd moment and higher do not match those of the original by a large difference. Do you have any better way to do this?
Thanks, Geoffrey -----Original Message----- From: Benilton Carvalho [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2007 4:45 PM To: Geoffrey Zhu Cc: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: Re: [R] Inverse fuction of ecdf ?quantile b On Jan 28, 2007, at 5:41 PM, Geoffrey Zhu wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > I want to generate some random numbers according to some empirical > distribution. Therefore I am looking for the inverse of an empirical > cumulative distribution function. I haven't found any in R. Can anyone > give a pointer? > > Thanks, > Geoffrey _______________________________________________________=0A= =0A= =0A= The information in this email or in any file attached hereto...{{dropped}} ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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.