Re: choose value from custom distribution

2010-10-19 Thread Peter Otten
Chris Rebert wrote: > On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 11:40 PM, Arnaud Delobelle > wrote: >> elsa writes: >>> Hello, >>> >>> I'm trying to find a way to collect a set of values from real data, >>> and then sample values randomly from this data - so, the data I'm >>> collecting becomes a kind of probabil

Re: choose value from custom distribution

2010-10-19 Thread Ian
On Oct 18, 9:27 pm, elsa wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to find a way to collect a set of values from real data, > and then sample values randomly from this data - so, the data I'm > collecting becomes a kind of probability distribution. For instance, I > might have age data for some children. It'

Re: choose value from custom distribution

2010-10-18 Thread Chris Rebert
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 11:40 PM, Arnaud Delobelle wrote: > elsa writes: >> Hello, >> >> I'm trying to find a way to collect a set of values from real data, >> and then sample values randomly from this data - so, the data I'm >> collecting becomes a kind of probability distribution. For instance,

Re: choose value from custom distribution

2010-10-18 Thread Arnaud Delobelle
elsa writes: > Hello, > > I'm trying to find a way to collect a set of values from real data, > and then sample values randomly from this data - so, the data I'm > collecting becomes a kind of probability distribution. For instance, I > might have age data for some children. It's very easy to col

Re: choose value from custom distribution

2010-10-18 Thread Chris Rebert
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 8:27 PM, elsa wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to find a way to collect a set of values from real data, > and then sample values randomly from this data - so, the data I'm > collecting becomes a kind of probability distribution. For instance, I > might have age data for some