I think the discussion in this thread https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2014-April/368816.html applies exactly.
See the parameter "prob" of sample. Cheers, B. On 2014-04-17, at 4:07 PM, Charles Determan Jr wrote: > Greetings, > > I would like to randomly remove elements from a numeric vector but with > different probabilities for higher numbers. > > For example: > > dat <- sample(seq(10), 100, replace=T) > > # now I would like to say randomly remove elements but with a higher chance > of removing elements >= 5 and even greater for elements >= 8. > > I am unfamiliar if there is a way to define conditional probabilities. Any > insight would be appreciated. > > Regards, > Charles > > [[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.