[R] how to generate a random data from a empirical distribition

[Frank Harrell]

This is true by definition.

Read about the bootstrap which may give you some good background 
information.

Frank E Harrell Jr   Professor and Chairman        School of Medicine
                      Department of Biostatistics   Vanderbilt University

On Wed, 28 Jul 2010, xin wei wrote:

>
> hi, Frank:
> how can we make sure the randomly sampled data follow the same distribution
> as the original dataset? i assume each data point has the same prabability
> to be selected in a simple random sampling scheme.
>
> thanks
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