re: Random number routines [was: st: Simple Question - Use of rndbin]

[David Airey <david.airey@Vanderbilt.Edu>]

>
I have heard locally that one reason R is favored on the Vanderbilt  
Medical Center campus, other than Frank Harrell proselytizing (weight  
= .99), is that random numbers in lots of forms are easy to do in R  
(weight = .01).

I like the last bit of Nick's post.


> Isn't it high time for a decent set of routines from StataCorp for
> random numbers from the more basic distributions? This grumble
> keeps re-surfacing, for example at the 2007 Boston users' meeting.
> Sometimes it seems that StataCorp find the request too boring to
> be really interesting, compared with some exotic modish model that
> 1% of the community really, really want. (Or say they do: next
> year, something else will be hot, or is it cool.)
--
David C. Airey, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor

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