Re: Random[BinomialDistribution[..]] wrong ?
- To: mathgroup at christensen.cybernetics.net
- Subject: [mg1080] Re: Random[BinomialDistribution[..]] wrong ?
- From: wagner at bullwinkle.cs.Colorado.EDU (Dave Wagner)
- Date: Fri, 12 May 1995 18:41:07 -0400
- Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
In article <3opku3$7h4 at news0.cybernetics.net>,
Paul A. Rubin <rubin at msu.edu> wrote:
>In article <3olugl$ql4 at news0.cybernetics.net>,
> bzbkowal at ZIB-Berlin.DE (Axel Kowald) wrote:
>->I'm using Mathematica 2.2 on a Macintosh and I got a problem generating
>binomially
>->distributed random numbers.
>->
>->I have:
>->
>->Needs["Statistics`DiscreteDistributions`"]
>->SeedRandom[17]
>->Table[Random[BinomialDistribution[10^6,0.01]],{5}]
>->Out-> {998486, 998486, 998486, 998486, 998486}
>->
>->Not only that the random numbers are all the same, most importantly they
>are in a
>->completely wrong range. One should get something around 10000 !
>
>I pasted your input statements into version 2.2.2 for Windows and got
>something different (and a lot more reasonable):
>
> {9996, 9954, 9854, 10107, 9837}
>
>If another Mac user can reproduce the problem, then I would suspect it to
>be a bug in the Mac kernel.
>
>Paul
I got the same results as Paul on Mac version 2.2.2 (PowerMac).
Dave Wagner
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