Re: [R] Generating unordered, with replacement, samples

2014-09-17 Thread Giovanni Petris
Thank you! That does exactly what I was looking for. Best, Giovanni From: Duncan Murdoch [murdoch.dun...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2014 15:02 To: Giovanni Petris; r-help@R-project.org Subject: Re: [R] Generating unordered, with

Re: [R] Generating unordered, with replacement, samples

2014-09-17 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 17/09/2014 3:46 PM, Giovanni Petris wrote: Hi Duncan, You are right. The idea of the derivation consists in 'throwing' k placeholders ("*" in the example below) in the list of the individuals of the population. For example, if the population is letters[1:6], and the sample size is 4, the fo

Re: [R] Generating unordered, with replacement, samples

2014-09-17 Thread Giovanni Petris
___ From: Duncan Murdoch [murdoch.dun...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2014 14:07 To: Giovanni Petris; r-help@R-project.org Subject: Re: [R] Generating unordered, with replacement, samples On 17/09/2014 2:25 PM, Giovanni Petris wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to

Re: [R] Generating unordered, with replacement, samples

2014-09-17 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 17/09/2014 3:07 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: On 17/09/2014 2:25 PM, Giovanni Petris wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to interface in my teaching some elementary probability with Monte Carlo ideas. In sampling from a finite population, the number of distinct samples of size 'k' from a population

Re: [R] Generating unordered, with replacement, samples

2014-09-17 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 17/09/2014 2:25 PM, Giovanni Petris wrote: Hello, I am trying to interface in my teaching some elementary probability with Monte Carlo ideas. In sampling from a finite population, the number of distinct samples of size 'k' from a population of size 'n' , when individuals are selected with

Re: [R] Generating unordered, with replacement, samples

2014-09-17 Thread Giovanni Petris
13:49 To: Giovanni Petris; r-help@R-project.org Subject: Re: [R] Generating unordered, with replacement, samples Hello, Try function ?sample. Something like, if 'x' is a vector of size n, sample(x, k, replace = TRUE) If you want indices into 'x', try instead sample(n, k, r

Re: [R] Generating unordered, with replacement, samples

2014-09-17 Thread Rui Barradas
Hello, Try function ?sample. Something like, if 'x' is a vector of size n, sample(x, k, replace = TRUE) If you want indices into 'x', try instead sample(n, k, replace = TRUE) Hope this helps, Rui Barradas Em 17-09-2014 19:25, Giovanni Petris escreveu: Hello, I am trying to interface in m