[R] Simulate multinomial data

Bert Gunter bgunter.4567 at gmail.com
Mon Jun 29 18:10:50 CEST 2015


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On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 8:23 AM, Christoph Scherber <cscherb1 at gwdg.de> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> How do I simulate a dataset where the response variable has 30 classes?
>
> I tried:
>
>
> ##
> set.seed(0)
> x = sort(runif(1000,1,4))
>
> a = 1.2
> b = 1.2
> y_det= a+b*poly(x,3)
>
> # for a normal distribution, I would use:
> ynorm = rnorm(1000,y_det)
>
> # but how would I do it for a multinomial?
>
> ymult=rmultinom(.....,)
>
>
> ##
> Many thanks and best wishes,
> Christoph
>
> [using R 3.1.1 on Windows 7 64-Bit]
>
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