Generate a Random Vector from an Empirical Distribution

Source: R/rvempirical.R

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

rvempirical(n, data)

Arguments

n

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

data

Data (constants)

Details

rvempirical

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").

Author

Jouni Kerman jouni@kerman.com

Examples


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