`scipy.stats._multivariate:multinomial_gen.rvs`

source: /scipy/stats/_multivariate.py:4193

Signature

def rvs(self, n, p, size = None, random_state = None)

Summary

Draw random samples from a Multinomial distribution.

Parameters

n : int: Number of trials
p : array_like: Probability of a trial falling into each category; should sum to 1
size : int or iterable of integers, optional: Number of samples to draw (default 1).
seed : {None, int, np.random.RandomState, np.random.Generator}, optional: Used for drawing random variates. If seed is None, the ~np.random.RandomState singleton is used. If seed is an int, a new RandomState instance is used, seeded with seed. If seed is already a RandomState or Generator instance, then that object is used. Default is None.

Returns

rvs : ndarray or scalar: Random variates of shape (size, len(p))

Notes

n should be a nonnegative integer. Each element of p should be in the interval $[0, 1]$ and the elements should sum to 1. If they do not sum to 1, the last element of the p array is not used and is replaced with the remaining probability left over from the earlier elements.

Aliases

scipy.stats._multivariate.multinomial_gen.rvs