I have a file with some probabilities for different values e.g.:
1 0.1
2 0.05
3 0.05
4 0.2
5 0.4
6 0.2
I would like to generate random numbers using this distribution. Does an existing module that handles this exist? It’s fairly simple to code on your own (build the cumulative density function, generate a random value [0,1] and pick the corresponding value) but it seems like this should be a common problem and probably someone has created a function/module for it.
I need this because I want to generate a list of birthdays (which do not follow any distribution in the standard random module).
