[R] re: rnorm??

[Scholz, Fritz]

I was not able to reproduce the behavior reported 
in my message below. I was trying it on the same laptop
in the same workspace using again R 2.0.0, but the
low counts of 4 to 7 (witnesses by some of my colleagues)
did not show up again. Please do not spend any more 
effort on this. 

>I am wondering whether there is a bug in rnorm.
>When generating rnorm(1000000) and counting 
>the cases > 4 and the cases < (-4) I get rather
>unexpectedly low counts for the latter. The problem goes away
>when using qnorm(runif(1000000)).


Fritz Scholz, PhD
Applied Statistics Group
Boeing Phantom Works
fritz.scholz at pss.boeing.com
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