rv (version 2.3.2)

rvempirical: Generate a Random Vector from an Empirical Distribution

Description

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

Usage

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").

Examples

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