I have seen other posts addressing similar problem. I know how to generate N positive integers. I also know how to restrict the sum of randomly generated integers. The only problem is satisfying the condition that none of the N values fall out of the specified range.
e.g. generate_ints(n, total, low, high) should generate n value array such that each value is between low and high and the sum adds up to the total. Any pointers/ help would be greatly appreciated.
e.g.generate_ints(4, 40, 4, 15) should generate something like
[7,10,13,10]
I don't care if the numbers are repeated, as long as they are not highly skewed. I am using np.randon.randint(5,15,n) to select the integer.
So far, I have tried the following, but it doesn't work -
import numpy as np
import random
from random import uniform as rand
total=50
n=10
low=2
high=15
result=[]
m=0
nobs=1
while nobs <= n:
if m >= (total - low):
last_num= total -new_tot
result.append(last_num)
else:
next_num=np.random.randint(low,high,1)
new_tot = sum(result) + next_num
result.append(next_num)
m=new_tot
nobs +=1
print result
print sum(result)
Thanks again.
解决方案import numpy as np
def sampler(samples, sum_to , range_list):
assert range_list[0]
arr = np.random.rand(samples)
sum_arr = sum(arr)
new_arr = np.array([int((item/sum_arr)*sum_to) if (int((item/sum_arr)*sum_to)>range_list[0]and int((item/sum_arr)*sum_to)
else np.random.choice(range(range_list[0],range_list[1]+1)) for item in arr])
difference = sum(new_arr) - sum_to
while difference != 0:
if difference < 0 :
for idx in np.random.choice(range(len(new_arr)),abs(difference)):
if new_arr[idx] != range_list[1] :
new_arr[idx] += 1
if difference > 0:
for idx in np.random.choice(range(len(new_arr)), abs(difference)):
if new_arr[idx] != 0 and new_arr[idx] != range_list[0] :
new_arr[idx] -= 1
difference = sum(new_arr) - sum_to
return new_arr
new_arr = sampler (2872,30000,[5,15])
print "Generated random array is :"
print new_arr
print "Length of array:", len(new_arr)
print "Max of array: ", max(new_arr)
print "min of array: ", min(new_arr)
print "and it sums up to %d" %sum(new_arr)
result :
Generated random array is :
[ 9 10 9 ..., 6 15 11]
Length of array: 2872
Max of array: 15
min of array: 5
and it sums up to 30000