Hello, I'm carrying out a simulation. I was wondering why this works (I took it from https://blogs.sas.com/content/iml/2013/08/05/simulate-from-multinomial-distribution.html😞 proc iml;
call randseed(4321); /* set random number seed */
c = {"black", "brown", "white"};
prob = {0.5 0.2 0.3}; /* probabilities of pulling each color */
X = RandMultinomial(1000, 100, prob); /* 1000 draws of 100 socks with 3 colors */
print X[colname=c]; while this does not: PROC IML; call randseed(4321); c = {"1", "2", "3","4", "5", "6","7", "8", "9","10", "11", "12","13","14"}; prob = {0 0 0.125 0 0.125 0.25 0 0 0.125 0.125 0 0.125 0 0.125 }; X=RandMultinomial(100, 1000, prob); print X[COLNAME=c]; QUIT; The log says "ERROR: Matrix X has not been set to a value.". I assume RandMultinomial can not simulate properly if one of the probabilities is 0. Nevertheless, I can't remove each 0 from the vector, that would be too time-consuming and inconsistent with my goal, I think. Is there a way to carry out the simulation in SAS/IML keeping the 0's in the vector? I know I could use the data step-approach reported here https://blogs.sas.com/content/iml/2016/03/16/simulate-multinomial-sas-data-step.html but I would like to keep it as simple as possible. Thanks, Simone
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