[R] Drawing from an empirical distribution

[culpritNr1]

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-saf1 at 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)
>>
>>
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> 
> 
> 
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