How do I sample randomly based on some probability(wightage)?

[Jaime Fernandez del Rio]

On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 8:42 PM, Sumitava Mukherjee
<smukh at cognobytes.com> wrote:
> On May 26, 11:39 pm, Sumitava Mukherjee <sm... at cognobytes.com> wrote:
>
>>>>> [Oh, I forgot to mention. I am looking for sampling without replacement.]

That means that, you'll have to code something that updates the sums
of probabilities after each extraction...

Would there be a smart way of doing this, of just adding the whole
updated list again is the best, or at least good enough?

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