Thank you! That was helpful. Another thing I learned was that I would need to do set.seed(99) not once but twice in this context.
On 8/11/05, ecatchpole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 12/08/05 13:27, xpRt.wannabe wrote,: > > Ted and List, > > > > What I need is I need to know what max of rnorm(rpois(1,10)) is before > > R does sum(), replicate(10, ...) and replicate(5, ...). > > > > The fact that you have set.seed(99) twice, does that mean, say, entry > > [1,1] 0.4896243 in 'mx' is one of the z number of values generated by > > rnorm(rpois(1,10)) that add up to [1,1] -2.0071674 in 'x'? Another > > way to ask the question, I guess, is, by doing set.seed(99) twice are > > the values generated by rnorm(rpois(1,10)) for 'x' same as those for > > 'mx'? > > Yes, that's the reason for having a set.seed() function. > > Ted. > > -- > Dr E.A. Catchpole > Visiting Fellow > Univ of New South Wales at ADFA, Canberra, Australia > and University of Kent, Canterbury, England > - www.ma.adfa.edu.au/~eac > - fax: +61 2 6268 8786 > - ph: +61 2 6268 8895 > ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html