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MCMCglmm (version 2.36)

rtnorm: 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)

Value

vector

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

Author

Jarrod Hadfield j.hadfield@ed.ac.uk

References

Robert, C.P. (1995) Statistics & Computing 5 121-125

See Also

rtnorm

Examples

Run this code
hist(rtnorm(100, lower=-1, upper=1))

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