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Re: Random Sampling Without Replacement [message #72872]

Wed, 13 October 2010 09:01

Michael Galloy
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Registered: April 2006

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On 10/13/10 9:46 AM, David Fanning wrote:
> Has anyone coded up an IDL algorithm to do random
> sampling without replacement?
>
> For example, suppose I want to sample values in
> my 2D image. I want, say, 100 values that represent
> individual pixel locations in the image. How can
> I make sure I get 100 unique, but random, locations?

To randomly sample m elements from n elements, I have used this albeit
inefficient technique:

m = 3
n = 100
im = findgen(n) ; input array
arr = randomu(seed, n)
ind = sort(arr)
print, im[ind[0:m-1]] ; m random elements from im

Mike
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		Re: Random Sampling Without Replacement By: Michael Galloy on Wed, 13 October 2010 09:01
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