Randperm generating the same sequence of permutation
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I am using randperm to generate different random permutations (subset of the data) from a data set. However even after 2 iterations it is generating the same combination of the number. For eg: the desired output would be like p={1,3,5,6,9,10},{4,6,7,2,1,3}... however i am getting p={1,4,5,7,8},{1,4,5,7,8}. its the same sequence i am getting.
saikath
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Azzi Abdelmalek
on 17 Jun 2015
Edited: Azzi Abdelmalek
on 17 Jun 2015
for k=1:3
out{k}=randperm(10,5)
end
celldisp(out)
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Saikath Bhattacharya
on 17 Jun 2015
James Tursa
on 17 Jun 2015
1 vote
Are you resetting the random number generator in between iterations?
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Saikath Bhattacharya
on 17 Jun 2015
Edited: Saikath Bhattacharya
on 17 Jun 2015
James Tursa
on 17 Jun 2015
randperm uses the random number generator, so in effect you are also resetting randperm. To get different sampling in each iteration, don't reset the random number generator.
Guillaume
on 17 Jun 2015
You can use two different RandStream, one for the random sequence generation, one for randperm.
Saikath Bhattacharya
on 17 Jun 2015
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