Just sample with replacement from your empirical distribution? See: ?sample ## note the "replace" argument
Other than that, I do not understand what you mean by "distribution fitting analysis." Cheers, Bert On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 10:55 AM, Paul Bernal <paulberna...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > Basically, I want to perform some distribution fitting analysis to a > particular data that I have. > > So the data I will be working with is structured as follows: > > *Vessel Size* * Number of Vessels* > *Frequency* > > 1000-2000 TEUS 1000 > 1% > 2000-3000 TEUS 3000 > 15% > 3000-4000 TEUS 2750 > 10% > 4000-5000 TEUS 5700 > 30% > > > The field Vessel Size is a categorical one, specifying what is the vessel > size category, then the field Number of Vessels tells me how many vessels > are in each one of those vessel size categories and frequency is just the > percentage of the total (this is just an example). > > How can I perform a distribution fit for this data? The reason why I want > to fit a distribution is to then perform a Monte Carlo Simulation with the > data. > > Any help will be greatly appreciated, > > Best regards, > > Paul > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. -- Bert Gunter Genentech Nonclinical Biostatistics Internal Contact Info: Phone: 467-7374 Website: http://pharmadevelopment.roche.com/index/pdb/pdb-functional-groups/pdb-biostatistics/pdb-ncb-home.htm ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
