On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 11:28 AM, Alan G Isaac <alan.is...@gmail.com> wrote: > I want to sample *without* replacement from a vector > (as with Python's random.sample). I don't see a direct > replacement for this, and I don't want to carry two > PRNG's around. Is the best way something like this? > > permutation(myvector)[:samplesize]
python has it in random sample( population, k) Return a k length list of unique elements chosen from the population sequence. Used for random sampling without replacement. New in version 2.3 Josef > > Thanks, > Alan Isaac > _______________________________________________ > NumPy-Discussion mailing list > NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org > http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion > _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
