Wright-Fisher simulation

[jeffgreen]

Hi everyone,
I have created the following dataset:
 
data binomial;
input n p;
cards;
12 .5
9 .4
15 .6
;
run;
 
 
Thanks in advance
 
 

[SASJedi]

I moved this post to the Statistical Procedures forum, where it should get noticed by folks more familiar with topics like this.

[FreelanceReinh]

Hi @jeffgreen,

Try this:

data want;
call streaminit(27182818);
set binomial;
k=n*p;
do r=1 by 1 until(k=0 | k=n);
  k=rand('binom',k/n,n);
  output;
end;
run;

If you don't need the individual binomial random numbers in dataset WANT, just omit the OUTPUT statement. Then you'll get only the final random number k (equal to 0 or n) and the number r of random number generations which led to this result.

[jeffgreen]

Thank you so much!! Worked perfectly!

[ballardw]

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@jeffgreen wrote:

Hi everyone,

I have created the following dataset:

data binomial;
input n p;
cards;
12 .5
9 .4
15 .6
;
run;

Basically, I want to run a Wright-Fisher simulation. For example, in the first line of code, I want to run binomial(12, .5), and using this result (say for example the result was 5), I want to do another binomial calculation- binomial (12, 5/12) where 5/12 is the result of the previous binomial simulation divided by n (12). I want to create code that, for each line of code, will repeat this until the generated number is 0 or n (which means the binomial simulation is either a success 0% of the time or 100% of the time). How would I go about doing this?

Thanks in advance

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Please describe in some detail what this phrase means: " I want to run binomial(12, .5)".

SAS  provides a number of functions that will let you work with specified distributions like binomial with given parameters: CDF PDF PROBBNML but "run" does not describe much.