[R] Simulate multinomial data

[MacQueen, Don]

See the combinat package:

combinat::rmultinomial
     Generate random samples from multinomial distributions


-Don

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Don MacQueen

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On 6/29/15, 8:23 AM, "R-help on behalf of Christoph Scherber"
<r-help-bounces at r-project.org on behalf of cscherb1 at gwdg.de> wrote:

>Dear all,
>
>How do I simulate a dataset where the response variable has 30 classes?
>
>I tried:
>
>
>##
>set.seed(0)
>x = sort(runif(1000,1,4))
>
>a = 1.2 
>b = 1.2  
>y_det= a+b*poly(x,3)
>
># for a normal distribution, I would use:
>ynorm = rnorm(1000,y_det)
>
># but how would I do it for a multinomial?
>
>ymult=rmultinom(.....,)
>
>
>##
>Many thanks and best wishes,
>Christoph
>
>[using R 3.1.1 on Windows 7 64-Bit]
>
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>
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>
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