If the ecdf is 'ecdf(x)', do just: > sample(x, size=whatever, replace=TRUE)
HTH, Antonio. 2009/1/6 culpritNr1 <ig2ar-s...@yahoo.co.uk>: > > Hi All, > > Does anybody know if there is a simple way to draw numbers from an empirical > distribution? > > I know that I can plot the empirical cumulative distribution function this > easy: > plot(ecdf(x)) > > Now I want to pick a number between 0 and 1 and go back to domain of x. > Sounds simple to me. > > Any suggestion? > > Thank you, > > Your culprit > (everybody needs a culprit) > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/Drawing-from-an-empirical-distribution-tp21320810p21320810.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > -- Antonio, Fabio Di Narzo Ph.D. student at Department of Statistical Sciences University of Bologna, Italy ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
