[Numpy-discussion] Efficient way to draw multinomial distribution random samples

[Kevin Sheppard]

This is in the pending PR.  Hopefully out in 1.20.

Kevin


On Sun, Nov 1, 2020, 23:55 Currurant <currurant at gmail.com> wrote:

> I realized that neither numpy.random.multinomial nor rng.multinomial has
> the
> ability to draw from different multinomial distributions at the same time
> like what MATLAB mnrnd() does here:
>
> https://www.mathworks.com/help/stats/mnrnd.html
>
> Also, I have asked this question on StackOverFlow:
>
>
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/64529620/is-there-an-efficient-way-to-generate-multinomial-random-variables-in-parallel?noredirect=1#comment114131565_64529620
>
> It seems like this is something good to add to numpy.random, since it would
> be much more faster when you have many multinomial distributions to draw
> from---using loops.
>
>
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