There's a recipe involving two exponentials and a normal deviate as formula (6) in (1st hit on Google for "dpln distribution").
http://www.math.uvic.ca/faculty/reed/dPlN.3.pdf It should be a no-brainer to code it up in R. -pd On 12 Nov 2013, at 16:47 , b. alzahrani <cs_2...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Hi guys > I would like to generate random number Double Pareto Log Normal Distribution > (DPLN). does anyone know how to do this in R or if there is any built-in > function. > > Thanks > > ****************************************************************** > Bander > ************************************* > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. -- Peter Dalgaard, Professor Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark Phone: (+45)38153501 Email: pd....@cbs.dk Priv: pda...@gmail.com ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.