Al Feiveson <[email protected]> asks,
> [...] I just noticed that the function -rnormal(mu,sig)- returns all
> missing values when sig = 0. I consider this a bug, since sometimes
> for debugging purposes it is convenient to set a particular variance
> component to zero. In other words, I would want -rnormal(mu,sig) to
> return a variable with all values equal to the `mu' when `sig' = 0.
I agree.
Moreover, the other random-variate generators should be willing to produce
constants when that is implied by the specified parameters.
We will take a look at the random-variate generators and make them tolerant of
these degenerate specifications. Expect to see the change in a future
executable update.
-- Vince
[email protected]
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