[R] Sampling
Thomas Lumley
tlumley at u.washington.edu
Thu Feb 7 21:30:30 CET 2008
On Thu, 7 Feb 2008, Tim Hesterberg wrote:
> Thomas Lumley wrote:
>> Now, it might be useful to add another replace=FALSE sampler to sample(),
>> such as the newish Conditional Poisson Sampler based on the work of
>> S.X.Chen. This does give correct marginal probabilities of inclusion, and
>> the pairwise joint probabilities are not too hard to compute.
>
> That could be interesting. The pairwise joint probabilities are
> important in some applications. Are all the pairwise joint
> probabilities nonzero (when size*prob allows that)?
>
Yes.
> Note that any algorithm for sampling without replacement can be
> extended to sampling with minimal replacement, by first drawing
> observations using the integer part of (size*prob), then reducing size
> and adjusting prob prior to random drawing.
Certainly -- the difficult part is sampling without replacement.
-thomas
Thomas Lumley Assoc. Professor, Biostatistics
tlumley at u.washington.edu University of Washington, Seattle
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