Re: [R] "rbinom" : Does randomness preclude precision?

2008-05-28 Thread Daniel Nordlund
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Re: [R] "rbinom" : Does randomness preclude precision?

2008-05-28 Thread Charles Annis, P.E.
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [R] "rbinom" : Does randomness preclude precision? Charles, When you simulate data from a distribution, what you effect are doing is generating a sequence of values that would correspond to that distribution. So you can generate 1000 values from a norma

Re: [R] "rbinom" : Does randomness preclude precision?

2008-05-28 Thread Charles Annis, P.E.
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Re: [R] "rbinom" : Does randomness preclude precision?

2008-05-28 Thread Philip Twumasi-Ankrah
Teds reply is a bit comforting and as indicated in my post, I am resorting to using "sample" but as an academic issue, does randomness preclude precision? Randomness should be in the sequence of zeros and ones and how they are simulated at each iteration of the process but not in the eventual n