[R] Bug : Autocorrelation in sample drawn from stats::rnorm (hmh)

hmh hugomh @end|ng |rom gmx@|r
Fri Oct 5 11:32:36 CEST 2018


I got it !


thanks and sorry for annoying you with that.


have a nice day,

hugo


On 05/10/2018 11:16, Deepayan Sarkar wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 5, 2018 at 2:07 PM hmh <hugomh using gmx.fr> wrote:
>> On 05/10/2018 10:28, Annaert Jan wrote:
>>> you discard any time series structure;
>> But that is PRECISELY what a call a bug:
>> There should not be any "time series structure" in the output or rnorm,
>> runif and so on but there is one.
>>
>> rnorm(N,0,1)
>> should give on average the same output as
>> sample(rnorm(N,0,1))
> Agreed, but that is not what your code is testing. You seem to think
> that something much more specific should be true; namely,
>
> X[1:10] ~ iid normal, then
>
> cor(X[1:9], X[2:10])
>
> and
>
> cor(sample(X[-1]), sample(X[-10]))
>
> should have the same distribution. This is not at all obvious, and in
> fact not true.
>
> Please check the reference you have been pointed to. Here is a related
> article in the same volume:
>
> https://www.jstor.org/stable/2332719
>
> -Deepayan
>
>
>> Which is not the case. rnorm(N,0,1) should draw INDEPENDENT samples i.e.
>> without time series structure !
>>
>>
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Les réflexions naissent dans les doutes et meurent dans les certitudes. 
Les doutes sont donc un signe de force et les certitudes un signe de 
faiblesse. La plupart des gens sont pourtant certains du contraire.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Thoughts appear from doubts and die in convictions. Therefore, doubts 
are an indication of strength and convictions an indication of weakness. 
Yet, most people believe the opposite.


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