rtnorm {MCMCglmm}R Documentation

Random Generation from a Truncated Normal Distribution

Description

Samples from the Truncated Normal Distribution

Usage

rtnorm(n = 1, mean = 0, sd = 1, lower = -Inf, upper = Inf)

Arguments

n integer: number of samples to be drawn
mean vector of means
sd vector of standard deviations
lower left truncation point
upper right truncation point

Value

vector

Author(s)

Jarrod Hadfield j.hadfield@ed.ac.uk

References

Robert 1995 Statistics & Computing

See Also

rtnorm

Examples

hist(rtnorm(100, lower=-1, upper=1))

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