Re: st: unexpected -rbinomial- behaviour

[Tirthankar Chakravarty <tirthankar.chakravarty@gmail.com>]

Jeph,

The Stata function -rbinomial- is not defined for p=0. From
h rbinomial
rbinomial(n, p)
       Domain n:     1 to 1e+11
       Domain p:     1e-8 to 1-1e-8
       Range:        0 to n

Your probabilistic statement about the degenerate Binomial
distribution is correct - the domain of the Binomial distribution is p
\in [0,1]. My guess would be that the p=/=0 condition is a limitation
of the simulation algorithm.

T

On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 12:54 PM, Jeph Herrin <stata@spandrel.net> wrote:
>
> Am I wrong to expect rbinomial(n,0) = 0?
>
> . di rbinomial(10,0)
> .
>
> I would think that if P(success)= 0, then E(successes)=0.
>
>
> Jeph
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