Hi David, I do not have that book- Knuth (The Art of Computer Programming, Vol 2) on page
142-143. Can you outline that procedure to select purely integers at random? Thanks. Shareef David Heiser wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > > Behalf Of Shareef Siddeek > > Sent: Monday, September 30, 2002 10:42 AM > > To: Dennis Roberts > > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: randomly selecting a discrete, equally probable value from a > > U dist > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Just some very incidental comments here. > > Dennis's reply is a valid approach. > > If however the integers represent records, in which the apparent number is > like the number on a football jersey, then the problem is somewhat > different. The problem here becomes selection of an unbiased choice of n > records at random from a file containing N records. Here n=1 and N= 9 > (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9). Knuth (The Art of Computer Programming, Vol 2) on page > 142-143 discusses this problem and gives an algorithm for its solution. > > David Heiser > > . > . > ================================================================= > Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the > problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: > . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . > ================================================================= . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
