Re: [R] OT: What distribution is this?

2010-09-26 Thread Peter Dalgaard
On 09/26/2010 10:29 AM, Rainer M Krug wrote: Hi Peter, H Berwin, thanks a lot for your clarifications, it makes more sense now. But having our input and thinking a little bit more about the problem, I realized that I am simply interested in the pdf p(y) that y *number* of entities (which

Re: [R] OT: What distribution is this?

2010-09-26 Thread Berwin A Turlach
G'day Rainer, On Sun, 26 Sep 2010 10:29:08 +0200 Rainer M Krug r.m.k...@gmail.com wrote: I realized that I am simply interested in the pdf p(y) that y *number* of entities (which ones is irrelevant) in N are are *not* drawn after the sampling process has been completed. Even simpler (I

Re: [R] OT: What distribution is this?

2010-09-26 Thread Rainer M Krug
Hi Peter, H Berwin, thanks a lot for your clarifications, it makes more sense now. But having our input and thinking a little bit more about the problem, I realized that I am simply interested in the pdf p(y) that y *number* of entities (which ones is irrelevant) in N are are *not* drawn after

[R] OT: What distribution is this?

2010-09-25 Thread Rainer M Krug
Hi This is OT, but I need it for my simulation in R. I have a special case for sampling with replacement: instead of sampling once and replacing it immediately, I sample n times, and then replace all n items. So: N entities x samples with replacement each sample consists of n sub-samples

Re: [R] OT: What distribution is this?

2010-09-25 Thread Berwin A Turlach
G'day Rainer, On Sat, 25 Sep 2010 16:24:17 +0200 Rainer M Krug r.m.k...@gmail.com wrote: This is OT, but I need it for my simulation in R. I have a special case for sampling with replacement: instead of sampling once and replacing it immediately, I sample n times, and then replace all n

Re: [R] OT: What distribution is this?

2010-09-25 Thread Peter Dalgaard
On 09/25/2010 04:24 PM, Rainer M Krug wrote: Hi This is OT, but I need it for my simulation in R. I have a special case for sampling with replacement: instead of sampling once and replacing it immediately, I sample n times, and then replace all n items. So: N entities x samples