Re: [Numpy-discussion] Question about numpy.random.choice with probabilties

On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 9:41 AM, Nadav Har'El wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 4:52 PM, aleba...@gmail.com wrote: >> >> 2017-01-23 15:33 GMT+01:00 Robert Kern : >>> >>> I don't object to some Notes, but I would probably phrase it

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Question about numpy.random.choice with probabilties

On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 5:47 PM, Robert Kern wrote: > > > As for the standardness of the definition: I don't know, have you a > reference where it is defined? More natural to me would be to have a list > of items with integer multiplicities (as in: "cat" 3 times, "dog" 1

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Question about numpy.random.choice with probabilties

On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 4:52 PM, aleba...@gmail.com wrote: > > > 2017-01-23 15:33 GMT+01:00 Robert Kern : > >> >> I don't object to some Notes, but I would probably phrase it more like we >> are providing the standard definition of the jargon term

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Question about numpy.random.choice with probabilties

On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 9:22 AM, Anne Archibald wrote: > > > On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 3:34 PM Robert Kern wrote: >> >> I don't object to some Notes, but I would probably phrase it more like we are providing the standard definition of the jargon

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Question about numpy.random.choice with probabilties

On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 3:34 PM Robert Kern wrote: > I don't object to some Notes, but I would probably phrase it more like we > are providing the standard definition of the jargon term "sampling without > replacement" in the case of non-uniform probabilities. To my mind

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Question about numpy.random.choice with probabilties

2017-01-23 15:33 GMT+01:00 Robert Kern : > On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 6:27 AM, Anne Archibald > wrote: > > > > On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 4:13 PM Nadav Har'El wrote: > >> > >> On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 4:30 PM,

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Question about numpy.random.choice with probabilties

On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 6:27 AM, Anne Archibald wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 4:13 PM Nadav Har'El wrote: >> >> On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 4:30 PM, wrote: >>> Having more sampling schemes would be useful, but it's not

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Question about numpy.random.choice with probabilties

On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 4:13 PM Nadav Har'El wrote: > On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 4:30 PM, wrote: > > > > Having more sampling schemes would be useful, but it's not possible to > implement sampling schemes with impossible properties. > > > > BTW: sampling 3

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Question about numpy.random.choice with probabilties

On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 4:30 PM, wrote: > > > Having more sampling schemes would be useful, but it's not possible to >> implement sampling schemes with impossible properties. >> >> > > BTW: sampling 3 out of 3 without replacement is even worse > > No matter what sampling

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Question about numpy.random.choice with probabilties

On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 8:53 AM, wrote: > > > On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 4:52 AM, Nadav Har'El wrote: > >> >> On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 11:00 AM, aleba...@gmail.com >> wrote: >> >>> Let's look at what the user asked this function, and

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Question about numpy.random.choice with probabilties

On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 4:52 AM, Nadav Har'El wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 11:00 AM, aleba...@gmail.com > wrote: > >> Let's look at what the user asked this function, and what it returns: >> >>> >>> User asks: please give me random pairs of the three

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Question about numpy.random.choice with probabilties

On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 11:00 AM, aleba...@gmail.com wrote: > Let's look at what the user asked this function, and what it returns: > >> >> User asks: please give me random pairs of the three items, where item 1 >> has probability 0.2, item 2 has 0.4, and 3 has 0.4. >> >>

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Question about numpy.random.choice with probabilties

2017-01-18 9:35 GMT+01:00 Nadav Har'El : > > On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 1:58 AM, aleba...@gmail.com > wrote: > >> >> >> 2017-01-17 22:13 GMT+01:00 Nadav Har'El : >> >>> >>> On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 7:18 PM, aleba...@gmail.com

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Question about numpy.random.choice with probabilties

On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 1:58 AM, aleba...@gmail.com wrote: > > > 2017-01-17 22:13 GMT+01:00 Nadav Har'El : > >> >> On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 7:18 PM, aleba...@gmail.com >> wrote: >> >>> Hi Nadav, >>> >>> I may be wrong, but I think that

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Question about numpy.random.choice with probabilties

On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 6:58 PM, aleba...@gmail.com wrote: > > > 2017-01-17 22:13 GMT+01:00 Nadav Har'El : > >> >> On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 7:18 PM, aleba...@gmail.com >> wrote: >> >>> Hi Nadav, >>> >>> I may be wrong, but I think that

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Question about numpy.random.choice with probabilties

2017-01-17 22:13 GMT+01:00 Nadav Har'El : > > On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 7:18 PM, aleba...@gmail.com > wrote: > >> Hi Nadav, >> >> I may be wrong, but I think that the result of the current implementation >> is actually the expected one. >> Using you example:

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Question about numpy.random.choice with probabilties

On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 4:13 PM, Nadav Har'El wrote: > > > On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 7:18 PM, aleba...@gmail.com wrote: >> >> Hi Nadav, >> >> I may be wrong, but I think that the result of the current implementation is actually the expected one. >> Using you

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Question about numpy.random.choice with probabilties

On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 7:18 PM, aleba...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi Nadav, > > I may be wrong, but I think that the result of the current implementation > is actually the expected one. > Using you example: probabilities for item 1, 2 and 3 are: 0.2, 0.4 and 0.4 > > P([1,2]) =