Re: Need some help

by azzza :: Rate this Message:

Quite helpful indeed. Greatly appreciated.
Another problem I had was trying to simulate an example from my book. Simulating 1000 coin tosses, and finding the frequency of sign changes. So how will we plot this using R? (frequency of sign changes in Y axis)

Daniel Nordlund wrote:

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> Of azzza
> Sent: Sunday, October 14, 2007 10:21 PM
> To: r-help@r-project.org
> Subject: [R] Need some help
>
>
> Hi!
> I'm taking a course that requires some programming background, but I'm a
> complete novice in the field.
>
> when asked to generate a list of 20 uniform random numbers, is it alright if
> I put in >randu, and just copy-paste the first 20 numbers?? Or is there, as
> I suspect, a better way of calling out exactly 20 uniform random numbers??
>
See ?runif

rand_nums <- runif(20)

> I'm also unable to solve the following problem:
> We know that on average 30% of the customers who enter a store make a
> purchase. Suppose 200
> people enter the store today. Run a simulation to see how many purchases we
> will have today.
>
see ?sample
> number_of_purchases <- sum(sample(c(0,1), 200, prob=c(.70, .30), replace=TRUE))

Hope this is helpful,

Dan

Daniel Nordlund
Bothell, WA USA

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