Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0503111610190.3043@stat12.stat.auckland.ac.nz>
Date: 2005-03-11T03:13:01Z
From: David Scott
Subject: sample function
In-Reply-To: <BAY10-F303206AF04A6B0EE46602FC7530@phx.gbl>
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, mirage sell wrote:
> Hi everyone, I need help.
> I want to have a "uniform" kind distribution. When I used sample function I
> got almost twice many zeros compared to other numbers. What's wrong with my
> command ?
>
Nothing is wrong with your sampling, it is the display in the histogram.
Try
temp <-sample(0:12, 2000, replace=T,prob=(rep(1/13,13)))
table(temp)
David Scott
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