On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 8:37 PM, Gábor Csárdi <csa...@rmki.kfki.hu> wrote: > I would suggest to use the generator at > http://submoon.freeshell.org/pix/valium/dilbert_rng.jpg > and subtract 8.5.
You may laugh (indeed I did) but some medical trials have used (and poss still do) telephone-a-human random numbers. When deciding to give medicine or placebo the doctor calls the phone number and asks for a random number, which is read out, and this decides what the patient gets. I suppose this could be implemented in R with an interface to a speech recognition engine and a telephone... but runif(100) is easier. Barry ______________________________________________ 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.
