Duncan Smith wrote: > greg wrote: > >>Gabriel Genellina wrote: >> >> >>>The 5th number is not "random". >> >> >>More precisely, the fifth number is not *independent* >>of the others. You can't have five independent random >>numbers that sum to 50; only four independent numbers >>plus a dependent one. >> >>-- >>Greg > > > In the interests of precision, that should probably read "are > constrained to sum to 50"; it's quite possible to generate a sequence of > independent random variates that just happen to sum to 50 (as I'm sure > you know). > > A fairly efficient way of generating random multinomial variates (which > would satisfy the OP's problem)
[snip] That is, the OP's original problem (without the positivity constraint added in a later post). Duncan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
