Re: [R] gennerating skewed random numbers

2011-01-11 Thread Michael Bedward
Hi Ed, The sn package can generate random values from skewed Normal and t distributions. Also see here: http://azzalini.stat.unipd.it/SN/faq-r.html Michael On 11 January 2011 23:37, Ed Keith wrote: > This is not exactly an R specific question, but I think the people on this > list can probabl

[R] gennerating skewed random numbers

2011-01-11 Thread Ed Keith
This is not exactly an R specific question, but I think the people on this list can probably help. I'm working on a simulation. In the model I have the first three moments of the distributions of the variables. I know how to generate a random number from a distribution given the first two momen