It seems to me that in the zero mean case you should generate exponential data and attach a random +/- sign. You can translate the resulting data to centre on the desired mean for the general case.
Murray Jorgensen > Hi, Everyone, > > I have problem in data generation using Laplace distribution. i tried > "rlaplace()" in VGAM package but when i install this package then > predict(lm(...)) and resid(lm(...)) etc does not work. please let me know > if anyone who know how to deal with it, and generate Laplace data. it > would > be greatly appreciated. thanks in advance, > > Dost, > > _______________________________________________ > R-SIG-Robust@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-robust > _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Robust@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-robust
