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# numpy.random.Generator.multinomial

method

random.Generator.multinomial(n, pvals, size=None)

  Draw samples from a multinomial distribution.

  The multinomial distribution is a multivariate generalization of the binomial distribution. Take an experiment with one of `p` possible outcomes. An example of such an experiment is throwing a dice, where the outcome can be 1 through 6. Each sample drawn from the distribution represents n such experiments. Its values, `X_i = [X_0, X_1, ..., X_p]`, represent the number of times the outcome was `i`.

  Parameters:
    n int or array-like of ints

      Number of experiments.

    pvals array-like of floats

      Probabilities of each of the `p` different outcomes with shape `(k0, k1, ..., kn, p)`. Each element `pvals[i,j,...,:]` must sum to 1 (however, the last element is always assumed to account for the remaining probability, as long as `sum(pvals[..., :-1], axis=-1) <= 1.0`. Must have at least 1 dimension where pvals.shape[-1] > 0.

    size int or tuple of ints, optional

      Output shape. If the given shape is, e.g., `(m, n, k)`, then `m * n * k` samples are drawn each with `p` elements. Default is None where the output size is determined by the broadcast shape of `n` and all by the final dimension of `pvals`, which is denoted as `b=(b0, b1, ..., bq)`. If size is not None, then it must be compatible with the broadcast shape `b`. Specifically, size must have `q` or more elements and size[-(q-j):] must equal `bj`.

  Returns:
    out ndarray

      The drawn samples, of shape size, if provided. When size is provided, the output shape is size + (p,) If not specified, the shape is determined by the broadcast shape of `n` and `pvals`, `(b0, b1, ..., bq)` augmented with the dimension of the multinomial, `p`, so that that output shape is `(b0, b1, ..., bq, p)`.

      Each entry `out[i,j,...,:]` is a `p`-dimensional value drawn from the distribution.

  Examples

  Throw a dice 20 times:

      >>> rng = np.random.default_rng()
      >>> rng.multinomial(20, [1/6.]*6, size=1)
      array([[4, 1, 7, 5, 2, 1]])  # random

  It landed 4 times on 1, once on 2, etc.

  Now, throw the dice 20 times, and 20 times again:

      >>> rng.multinomial(20, [1/6.]*6, size=2)
      array([[3, 4, 3, 3, 4, 3],
             [2, 4, 3, 4, 0, 7]])  # random

  For the first run, we threw 3 times 1, 4 times 2, etc. For the second, we threw 2 times 1, 4 times 2, etc.

  Now, do one experiment throwing the dice 10 time, and 10 times again, and another throwing the dice 20 times, and 20 times again:

      >>> rng.multinomial([[10], [20]], [1/6.]*6, size=(2, 2))
      array([[[2, 4, 0, 1, 2, 1],
              [1, 3, 0, 3, 1, 2]],
             [[1, 4, 4, 4, 4, 3],
              [3, 3, 2, 5, 5, 2]]])  # random

  The first array shows the outcomes of throwing the dice 10 times, and the second shows the outcomes from throwing the dice 20 times.

  A loaded die is more likely to land on number 6:

      >>> rng.multinomial(100, [1/7.]*5 + [2/7.])
      array([11, 16, 14, 17, 16, 26])  # random

  Simulate 10 throws of a 4-sided die and 20 throws of a 6-sided die

      >>> rng.multinomial([10, 20],[[1/4]*4 + [0]*2, [1/6]*6])
      array([[2, 1, 4, 3, 0, 0],
             [3, 3, 3, 6, 1, 4]], dtype=int64)  # random

  Generate categorical random variates from two categories where the first has 3 outcomes and the second has 2.

      >>> rng.multinomial(1, [[.1, .5, .4 ], [.3, .7, .0]])
      array([[0, 0, 1],
             [0, 1, 0]], dtype=int64)  # random

  `argmax(axis=-1)` is then used to return the categories.

      >>> pvals = [[.1, .5, .4 ], [.3, .7, .0]]
      >>> rvs = rng.multinomial(1, pvals, size=(4,2))
      >>> rvs.argmax(axis=-1)
      array([[0, 1],
             [2, 0],
             [2, 1],
             [2, 0]], dtype=int64)  # random

  The same output dimension can be produced using broadcasting.

      >>> rvs = rng.multinomial([[1]] * 4, pvals)
      >>> rvs.argmax(axis=-1)
      array([[0, 1],
             [2, 0],
             [2, 1],
             [2, 0]], dtype=int64)  # random

  The probability inputs should be normalized. As an implementation detail, the value of the last entry is ignored and assumed to take up any leftover probability mass, but this should not be relied on. A biased coin which has twice as much weight on one side as on the other should be sampled like so:

      >>> rng.multinomial(100, [1.0 / 3, 2.0 / 3])  # RIGHT
      array([38, 62])  # random

  not like:

      >>> rng.multinomial(100, [1.0, 2.0])  # WRONG
      Traceback (most recent call last):
      ValueError: pvals < 0, pvals > 1 or pvals contains NaNs