Re: Biased Random[Integer]?
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- Subject: [mg19050] Re: Biased Random[Integer]?
- From: "Stephen P Luttrell" <luttrell at signal.dra.hmg.gb>
- Date: Thu, 5 Aug 1999 01:34:43 -0400
- Organization: Defence Evaluation and Research Agency
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AES <siegman at stanford.edu> wrote in message news:7o5gbi$rim at smc.vnet.net... > "Random[Integer]" gives 0 or 1 with .probability 1/2. > > What's the simplest expression that will yield 0 or 1 with probabilities > p and 1-p ? > > (p itself might be a rational fraction, p = p1/p2.) > > I can write various expressions that do this, but what's the cleanest or > tersest way? Here's my attempt: If[Random[Real, {0, 1}] < p, 0, 1] -- Dr Stephen P Luttrell Room EX21, Defence Evaluation and Research Agency Malvern, Worcs, WR14 3PS, U.K. luttrell at signal.dera.gov.uk 01684-894046 (phone), 01684-894384 (fax) http://www.dera.gov.uk/cis5pip/Welcome.html