Thank you. That's exactly what I was looking for.
Antonio, Fabio Di Narzo wrote: > > If the ecdf is 'ecdf(x)', do just: >> sample(x, size=whatever, replace=TRUE) > > HTH, > Antonio. > > 2009/1/6 culpritNr1 <ig2ar-s...@yahoo.co.uk>: >> >> Hi All, >> >> Does anybody know if there is a simple way to draw numbers from an >> empirical >> distribution? >> >> I know that I can plot the empirical cumulative distribution function >> this >> easy: >> plot(ecdf(x)) >> >> Now I want to pick a number between 0 and 1 and go back to domain of x. >> Sounds simple to me. >> >> Any suggestion? >> >> Thank you, >> >> Your culprit >> (everybody needs a culprit) >> >> >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://www.nabble.com/Drawing-from-an-empirical-distribution-tp21320810p21320810.html >> Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> >> ______________________________________________ >> 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. >> > > > > -- > Antonio, Fabio Di Narzo > Ph.D. student at > Department of Statistical Sciences > University of Bologna, Italy > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Drawing-from-an-empirical-distribution-tp21320810p21321149.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ 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.
