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Thomas Neidhart commented on MATH-1239:
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Another reference to sampling algorithms:
http://statsbasejl.readthedocs.org/en/latest/sampling.html
> Add a fast sequential random sampler method
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> Key: MATH-1239
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MATH-1239
> Project: Commons Math
> Issue Type: Sub-task
> Reporter: Thomas Neidhart
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> Many applications need a fast way to randomly select n samples from a
> population without replacement.
> So far the best way seems to be the method proposed by Vitter in the
> following paper:
> http://www.mathcs.emory.edu/~cheung/papers/StreamDB/RandomSampling/1984-Vitter-Faster-random-sampling.pdf
> A comparison with other methods can be found here (same author):
> https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/inria-00075929/document
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