Sorry, but you need to do some studying of statistical theory. The normal/Gaussian distribution has a fixed kurtosis of 3.0. **There is no kurtosis parameter.**
Again, this is not the place for such discussions. -- Bert Bert Gunter "The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along and sticking things into it." -- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip ) On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 8:09 AM, Dan Abner <dan.abne...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Bert, > > Thank you for the response. Let me re-phrase: > > What is the most efficient way to generate variates from a unimodal > symmetric distribution that are leptokurtic or platykurtic in R? There does > not appear to be a kurtosis parameter for rnorm(). > > Thanks all, > > Dan > > On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 10:15 AM, Bert Gunter <bgunter.4...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> There is no such thing as "heavy and light tailed normal variates." >> The normal distribution is normal, period. >> >> Ask this on stats.stackexchange.com. It is about statistics not R, and >> a sensible answer heavily depends on the context you have in mind. >> >> Cheers, >> Bert >> >> >> >> >> Bert Gunter >> >> "The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along >> and sticking things into it." >> -- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip ) >> >> >> On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 6:45 AM, Dan Abner <dan.abne...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > Hi all, >> > >> > I need to generate heavy and light-tailed normal variates separately for >> > demonstration purposes. I figure for the heavy-tailed, I will just >> > generate >> > variates from a t distribution with low degrees of freedom. How does one >> > generate light-tailed normal variates? >> > >> > Thanks, >> > >> > Dan >> > >> > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> > >> > ______________________________________________ >> > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >> > 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. > > ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.
