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- ## Copyright (C) 1996, 1997 Kurt Hornik
- ##
- ## This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
- ## it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
- ## the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
- ## any later version.
- ##
- ## This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
- ## WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- ## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
- ## General Public License for more details.
- ##
- ## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
- ## along with this file. If not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
- ## 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
-
- ## usage: discrete_rnd (N, V, P)
- ##
- ## Generate a random sample of size N from the univariate distribution
- ## which assumes the values in V with probabilities P.
- ##
- ## Currently, N must be a scalar.
-
- ## Author: KH <Kurt.Hornik@ci.tuwien.ac.at>
- ## Description: Random deviates from a discrete distribution
-
- function rnd = discrete_rnd (N, V, P)
-
- if (nargin != 3)
- usage ("discrete_rnd (N, V, P)");
- endif
-
- if !is_scalar (N)
- error ("discrete_rnd: N must be a scalar");
- endif
-
- if (! is_vector (V))
- error ("discrete_rnd: V must be a vector");
- elseif (! is_vector (P) || (length (P) != length (V)))
- error ("discrete_rnd: P must be a vector with length (V) elements");
- elseif (! (all (P >= 0) && any (P)))
- error ("discrete_rnd: P must be a nonzero, nonnegative vector");
- endif
-
- u = rand (1, N);
- m = length (P);
- s = reshape (cumsum (P / sum (P)), m, 1);
-
- rnd = V (1 + sum ((s * ones (1, N)) <= ((ones (m, 1) * u))));
-
- if (prefer_column_vectors)
- rnd = rnd';
- endif
-
- endfunction
-