I am brand new to Octave and am trying to become familiar with writing code to simulate random events. How could I write a script that generates $m$ outcomes ffrom the CDF of a binomial random variable $X = Bi(5, 0.2)$, for example?
Here is what I have tried so far:
function x = generate_bi(n,p,m)
% generate Bi(n, p) outcomes m times
x=zeros(1:m);
for i = 1:m
successes = 0;
for j = 1:n
u = rand;
if (u <= p)
successes++;
endif
end
x(i) = successes;
end
end
So to simulate 100 random outcomes, I would call generate_bi(5, 0.2, 100)