> Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 12:16:32 +0100 (MET)
> From: Rob.van.der.Horst@cwi.nl
> >
> > Maybe a stupid question or a faq:
> >
> > Does somewhere exist a Splus function for a random drawing
> > (X,Y) from the bivariate normal distribution (means 0, sigma's 1,rho)
> > ????????
> >
>
> Well, it was not a stupid question after all.
> The problem was (what a shame!) that we are still working with
> Splus version 3.4 (for SGI)
>
> Many nice people told me to use the function "rmvnorm" (c.q. dmvnorm,pmvnorm)
> and that function is "not" available in our 'old' version.
>
> Bill Venables was so kind to deliver me the source-text and now it is
> working!
There is a function mvrnorm in library MASS that works on all versions
of S-PLUS, possibly what Bill sent you.
--
Brian D. Ripley, ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk
Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self)
1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272860 (secr)
Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595
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