Creating Multinomial Random numbers with Mahout

[Sven Boekhoff]

Hi.

I like to use the Mahout-Library to create multinomial random numbers 
(strangely there is no other library available, as far as I know). I 
tried several things, but nothing worked, and the documentation was not 
very helpful for me (maybe because I'm a Java newbie). My last 
sourcecode was:



//import java.util.Random;
//import java.util.Vector;

import org.apache.mahout.clustering.dirichlet.UncommonDistributions;
import org.apache.mahout.matrix.Vector;


public class Main {

    public static void main(String[] args) {

        // 
http://lucene.apache.org/mahout/javadoc/core/index.html?org/apache/mahout/clustering/dirichlet/UncommonDistributions.html

        Vector probabilities = new Vector();
        /*
        Vector<Float> probabilities = new Vector<Float>();
        probabilities.add((float) 0.1);
        probabilities.add((float) 0.2);
        probabilities.add((float) 0.3);
        probabilities.add((float) 0.4);
        */

        // 100 Messpunkte
        for(int i=0; i<100; i++) {

            UncommonDistributions dist = (UncommonDistributions) new 
Object();
            // UncommonDistributions dist = new UncommonDistributions();


            Vector newCoordinates = dist.rMultinom(100, probabilities);

        }

    }

}



I hope somebody can tell me how to use the library in a correct way. I'm 
also searching for a library to create (multi-)HyperGeometric random 
numbers.

Thanks in advance,

Sven