From tlumley at u.washington.edu  Thu Jul 27 22:44:53 2006
From: tlumley at u.washington.edu (Thomas Lumley)
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 13:44:53 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Rd] bug with rpois (PR#9106)
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On Thu, 27 Jul 2006, Ben Bolker wrote:

> <dolive <at> math.siu.edu> writes:
>
>>
>>
>> The R poisson random generator rpois appears to have a bug for
>> theta 10 or larger. The sample mean of the pseudo variates is too
>> small: sample mean approx theta - 0.5.
>>
>
>  Certainly fixed by 2.3.1:
>

In fact, fixed in 1.2.0, in December 2000.

 	-thomas

Thomas Lumley			Assoc. Professor, Biostatistics
tlumley at u.washington.edu	University of Washington, Seattle



[Rd] bug with rpois (PR#9106)
Thomas Lumley