On 2/6/06, Ingmar Visser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You can use the following, with x your transition matrix > y=numeric(100) > x=matrix(runif(16),4,4) > for(i in 2:100) { > y[i]=which(rmultinom(1, size = 1, prob = x[y[i-1], ])==1) > } > hth, ingmar > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Norman Goodacre > Sent: maandag 6 februari 2006 5:26 > To: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch > Subject: [R] generating markov chain > > > Dear help group, > > Just fyi a markov chain is a sequence of transitions between states (say > A,T,G,C - on a gene) with a given probability for each transition. In this > case there'd be 16 different kinds, each with a different weight. > Given a transition matrix (4x4) filled with all transition probabilities > of course, how can I generate a random sequence of a given length, say 200? > > -Norman Goodacre Sorry, I am very new to this issue. Is there any tutorial to do Markov Chain? Thanks, Linda.
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