rvempirical: Generate a Random Vector from an Empirical Distribution

rvempiricalR Documentation

Generate a Random Vector from an Empirical Distribution

Description

rvempirical generates a random vector of the same length as data from the empirical distribution of the data.

Usage

rvempirical(n, data)

Arguments

n

Number of i.i.d. rv components to generate

data

Data (constants)

Details

rvempirical

Author(s)

Jouni Kerman jouni@kerman.com

References

Kerman, J. and Gelman, A. (2007). Manipulating and Summarizing Posterior Simulations Using Random Variable Objects. Statistics and Computing 17:3, 235-244.

See also vignette("rv").

Examples


  y <- c(1.0, 1.2, 3, 1.1, 0.8, 0.9) ## Some data
  x <- rvempirical(4, data=y) 


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