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st: Drawing from a standard Cauchy
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Dorothy Bridges <[email protected]>
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st: Drawing from a standard Cauchy
Date
Mon, 9 Jan 2012 18:35:08 -0800
Would I be correct in using the code "gen epsilon=invttail(1,
uniform())" to simulate sampling from a standard Cauchy? Many thanks
in advance for your thoughts.
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