Question

The associated R function is dlnorm(x, meanlog = 0, sdlog = 1) is for ________ distribution.

(a) Logistic

(b) Lognormal

(c) Normal

(d) Simple

This question was posed to me in a national level competition.

Enquiry is from Distribution in section Distributions, Graphics & Neural Networks of R Programming

Answer 1

Correct answer is (b) Lognormal

To explain: The associated R function is dlnorm(x, meanlog = 0, sdlog = 1). Lognormal distribution is a distribution derived from the normal distribution (hence the name). Its name also says that it is derived from the normal distribution.