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Re: Random Sampling Without Replacement

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  • Subject: [mg26594] Re: Random Sampling Without Replacement
  • From: "Ersek, Ted R" <ErsekTR at navair.navy.mil>
  • Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 10:39:08 -0500 (EST)
  • Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

A. E. Seigman wanted a neat compact way to randomly selected three integers
from 1 to N (N>3).  Everything needed is in a standard package.


In[1]:=
  <<DiscreteMath`Combinatorica`

For three random numbers between 1 and 50 use:

In[2]:=
  Part[ RandomKSubset[Range[50], 3],  RandomPermutation[3] ]

Out[2]=
  {14, 12, 38}

You can also use RandomPermutation1 or RandomPermutation2 instead of
RandomPermutation which are in the same package.  However, I haven't figured
out the difference between the three types.  You can also check the
implementation of the package to possibly get ideas on how to make it work
faster.

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Regards,
Ted Ersek

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