idlastro / Math and Statistics: MULTINOM

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NAME
MULTINOM
PURPOSE
SIMULATE MULTINOMIAL RANDOM VARIABLES
AUTHOR BRANDON C. KELLY, STEWARD OBS., APR 2006
INPUTS
N - THE NUMBER OF TRIALS
P - A K-ELEMENT VECTOR CONTAINING THE PROBABILITIES FOR EACH
    CLASS.
OPTIONAL INPUTS
NRAND - THE NUMBER OF RANDOM VARIABLES TO DRAW
SEED - THE SEED FOR THE RANDOM NUMBER GENERATOR
OUTPUT
NRAND RANDOM DRAWS FROM A MULTINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION WITH PARAMETERS
N AND P.