in reply to Re: Sampling from Combination Space (lcd)
in thread Sampling from Combination Space

Repeatedly randomly sampling without replacement is equivalent to shuffling the list and just splitting the result into groups of the desired size. ...

I am afraid such a method would seriously alter the outcome of any statistical analysis. For instance, if the number of elements in each combination is a divisor of the number of elements you pick from (in this case 158), then all (158) elements would appear the exactly same number of times in your sample.


Cheers

Antonio


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