Salas, Andria Kay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 04:10:06PM CET]:
> I need help with another problem I am having that deals with the generation
> of vectors that I asked about yesterday. I now need to have each value in
> the vector (all values either 1 or -1) have a probability p that it will
> switch signs (so, say, each value has a 50% chance of switching from -1 to 1
> or visa versa). What would be the best way to go about doing this?
> Thank-you!!
Say you have a vector v, you can generate another vector randomly by
w <- sample(c(-1, 1), length(v), replace=TRUE)
and multiply v with w.
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