clickstream (version 1.1.8)

randomClickstreams: Generates a List of Clickstreams

Description

Generates a list of clickstreams by randomly walking through a given transition matrix.

Usage

randomClickstreams(states, startProbabilities, transitionMatrix, meanLength, n = 100)

Arguments

states

Names of all possible states.

startProbabilities

Start probabilities for all states.

transitionMatrix

Matrix of transition probabilities.

meanLength

Average length of the click streams.

n

Number of click streams to be generated.

Value

Returns a list of clickstreams.

See Also

fitMarkovChain, readClickstreams, print.Clickstreams

Examples

# generate a simple list of click streams
states <- c("a", "b", "c")
startProbabilities <- c(0.2, 0.5, 0.3)
transitionMatrix <- matrix(c(0, 0.4, 0.6, 0.3, 0.1, 0.6, 0.2, 0.8, 0), nrow = 3)
cls <- randomClickstreams(states, startProbabilities, transitionMatrix, meanLength = 5, n = 10)
print(cls)