[Rd] rpois(9, 1e10)

Benjamin Tyner btyner @end|ng |rom gm@||@com
Sun Jan 19 16:34:59 CET 2020


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> Hello, All:
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>         Consider:
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> Browse[2]> set.seed(1)
> Browse[2]> rpois(9, 1e10)
> NAs produced[1] NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
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>         Should this happen?
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>         I think that for, say, lambda>1e6, rpois should return rnorm(.,
> lambda, sqrt(lambda)).
But need to implement carefully; rpois should always return a 
non-negative integer, whereas rnorm always returns numeric...



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