Do it again. What did you get this time? Then do it another time. Do you see what is happening?
Charles Annis, P.E. [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 561-352-9699 eFax: 614-455-3265 http://www.StatisticalEngineering.com -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Philip Twumasi-Ankrah Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2008 8:53 AM To: r-help@r-project.org Subject: [R] "rbinom" not using probability of success right I am trying to simulate a series of ones and zeros (1 or 0) and I am using "rbinom" but realizing that the number of successes expected is not accurate. Any advice out there. This is the example: N<-500 status<-rbinom(N, 1, prob = 0.15) count<-sum(status) 15 percent of 500 should be 75 but what I obtain from the "count" variable is 77 that gives the probability of success to be 0.154. Not very good. Is there another way beyond using "sample" and "rep" together? A Smile costs Nothing But Rewards Everything Happiness is not perfected until it is shared -Jane Porter [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.