[R] sample function

[David Scott]

On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, mirage sell wrote:

> Hi everyone, I need help.
> I want to have a "uniform" kind distribution. When I used sample function I 
> got almost twice many zeros compared to other numbers. What's wrong with my 
> command ?
>

Nothing is wrong with your sampling, it is the display in the histogram.

Try
temp <-sample(0:12, 2000, replace=T,prob=(rep(1/13,13)))
table(temp)

David Scott

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