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olau＠fas.harvard.edu

25 Feb 2003 25 Feb '03

11:54 p.m.

Guys, How do the "shape" and "scale" parameters work for rgamma? I want to use rgamma() to get my lamdas for the poisson distribution in question 4. Thanks, Olivia.

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lipscy＠fas.harvard.edu

26 Feb 26 Feb

1:02 a.m.

The equation in the notes has been reparametrized. If you're math-savy, you can derive the relevant variables from: http://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/handbook/eda/section3/eda366b.htm ------------------------------------------------- Phillip Y. Lipscy Perkins Hall Room #129 35 Oxford Street Cambridge, MA 02138 (617)493-4893 DORM (617)851-8220 CELL lipscy(a)fas.harvard.edu http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~lipscy/ First Year Student, Ph.D. Program Harvard University, FAS, Department of Government ------------------------------------------------- Quoting Olivia Lau <olau(a)fas.harvard.edu>du>:

Guys, How do the "shape" and "scale" parameters work for rgamma? I want to use rgamma() to get my lamdas for the poisson distribution in question 4. Thanks, Olivia. _______________________________________________ gov2001-l mailing list gov2001-l(a)fas.harvard.edu http://www.fas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/gov2001-l

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olau＠fas.harvard.edu

1:42 a.m.

Gee, Phil, you know that answer to that question at 2 AM!!!!! How about someone who is math savvy tell me where I can find the re-whatchamacallit on the web??? Olivia. On Wed, 26 Feb 2003, Phillip Y. Lipscy wrote:

The equation in the notes has been reparametrized. If you're math-savy, you can derive the relevant variables from: http://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/handbook/eda/section3/eda366b.htm ------------------------------------------------- Phillip Y. Lipscy Perkins Hall Room #129 35 Oxford Street Cambridge, MA 02138 (617)493-4893 DORM (617)851-8220 CELL lipscy(a)fas.harvard.edu http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~lipscy/ First Year Student, Ph.D. Program Harvard University, FAS, Department of Government ------------------------------------------------- Quoting Olivia Lau <olau(a)fas.harvard.edu>du>:

Guys, How do the "shape" and "scale" parameters work for rgamma? I want to use rgamma() to get my lamdas for the poisson distribution in question 4. Thanks, Olivia. _______________________________________________ gov2001-l mailing list gov2001-l(a)fas.harvard.edu http://www.fas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/gov2001-l

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