[R] conditional probability removal

Rui Barradas ruipbarradas at sapo.pt
Thu Apr 17 22:33:31 CEST 2014


Hello,

The discussion in that thread applies, maybe with

prob <- 1L + (dat >= 5) + (dat >= 8)

Hope this helps,

Rui Barradas

Em 17-04-2014 21:17, Boris Steipe escreveu:
> I think the discussion in this thread
>    https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2014-April/368816.html
> applies exactly.
>
> See the parameter "prob" of sample.
>
> Cheers,
> B.
>
>
> On 2014-04-17, at 4:07 PM, Charles Determan Jr wrote:
>
>> Greetings,
>>
>> I would like to randomly remove elements from a numeric vector but with
>> different probabilities for higher numbers.
>>
>> For example:
>>
>> dat <- sample(seq(10), 100, replace=T)
>>
>> # now I would like to say randomly remove elements but with a higher chance
>> of removing elements >= 5 and even greater for elements >= 8.
>>
>> I am unfamiliar if there is a way to define conditional probabilities.  Any
>> insight would be appreciated.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Charles
>>
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