Problem 2356. Simulating the selection of a state with given probabilities

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Lets say we have 3 different states [1,2,3] with the probabilities of occurrences of each state is given as [0.5 0.2 0.3]. Which means 50% state 1 will be selected among others. Generate randomly selected states with the probabilities given

Output array will be consisting of state numbers based on the probabilities given as input.

Example: (Quick tip: The higher simulation sampling sizes the more robust results)

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Guillaume on 11 Jun 2014

It's not clear to me what select_state is supposed to return. I would have thought it was one of the state (i.e. one of 1, 2, 3, ...) but it's not what the test suite tests for.
Returning the passed in probability with a very small deviation is enough to pass the test suit. This doesn't seem right.

Omer on 11 Jun 2014

Guillaume, i changed the problem output to states rather than the probability values. This way looks better i presume. Thanks for the comment. Cheers

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Peng Liu on 11 Aug 2015

A neat implementation of randsrc in the communication system toolbox

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Omer on 12 Jun 2014

well done! thanks for the effort.

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Omer on 11 Jun 2014

Alfonso, you are good! Congrats

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