numpy.random.dirichlet(alpha, size=None)¶
Draw samples from the Dirichlet distribution.
Draw size samples of dimension k from a Dirichlet distribution. A Dirichlet-distributed random variable can be seen as a multivariate generalization of a Beta distribution. Dirichlet pdf is the conjugate prior of a multinomial in Bayesian inference.
Parameters:Parameter of the distribution (k dimension for sample of dimension k).
Output shape. If the given shape is, e.g., (m, n, k), then m * n * k samples are drawn. Default is None, in which case a single value is returned.
The drawn samples, of shape (size, alpha.ndim).
If any value in alpha is less than or equal to zero
Notes
Uses the following property for computation: for each dimension, draw a random sample y_i from a standard gamma generator of shape alpha_i, then is Dirichlet distributed.
References
Examples
Taking an example cited in Wikipedia, this distribution can be used if one wanted to cut strings (each of initial length 1.0) into K pieces with different lengths, where each piece had, on average, a designated average length, but allowing some variation in the relative sizes of the pieces.
>>> s = np.random.dirichlet((10, 5, 3), 20).transpose()
>>> plt.barh(range(20), s[0])
>>> plt.barh(range(20), s[1], left=s[0], color='g')
>>> plt.barh(range(20), s[2], left=s[0]+s[1], color='r')
>>> plt.title("Lengths of Strings")
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