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EpiModel (version 2.5.0)

ssample: Stable Sampling Function

Description

Provides a sampling function useful for dynamic simulations, in which the length of the input vector may be multiple lengths and the size of the sample may be 0.

Usage

ssample(x, size, replace = FALSE, prob = NULL)

Value

A vector containing the sampled value(s).

Arguments

x

Either a vector of one or more elements from which to choose, or a positive integer.

size

Non-negative integer giving the number of items to choose.

replace

Should sampling be with replacement?

prob

Vector of probability weights for obtaining the elements of the vector being sampled.