Re: st: simulating bernoulli random numbers

[Roger Newson <roger.newson@kcl.ac.uk>]

At 21:02 02/07/02 +0200, Thomas M�hlmann wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I have an urgent request. Does someone know of a way to draw zero's und
> one's random numbers from a bernoulli variable? Can I use the "uniform
> ()" command for this task?
Yes, you can. If you want the probability of success to be 0.75, then you 
can simply type

gene byte bernie=uniform()<=0.75

and -bernie- will contain a Bernoulli pseudo-random variable with a 
probability 0.75 of success. You can do the same with other probabilities 
of success.

I hope this helps.

Roger


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