Hi, I am simulating an event that has 15 possible outcomes and I have a vector 'pout' that gives me the probability of each outcome - different outcomes have different probabilities. Does anyone know a simple way of simulating the outcome of my event?
If my event had only two possible outcomes (0/1) I would pick a uniform random number between 0 and 1 and use it to choose between the two possible outcomes given a certain probability of outcome 0 or failure 1. Now, since I have 15 possible outcomes, I guess that this should be done with some form of a categorical distribution but I couldn't find a function for the categorical distribution yet. Thanks for any suggestions! Gonçalo ______________________________________________ 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.
