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## -*- texinfo -*-
## @deftypefn {Function File} {} empirical_rnd (@var{n}, @var{data})
## Generate a bootstrap sample of size @var{n} from the empirical
## distribution obtained from the univariate sample @var{data}.
## @end deftypefn

## Author: KH <Kurt.Hornik@ci.tuwien.ac.at>
## Description: Bootstrap samples from the empirical distribution

function rnd = empirical_rnd (n, data)

  if (! isvector (data))
    error ("empirical_rnd: data must be a vector");
  endif

  rnd = discrete_rnd (n, data, ones (size (data)) / length (data));

endfunction