I am trying to generate fake data for exploratory purposes. Specifically, I am trying to produce data with a binary dependent variable (say, failure/success), and a categorical independent variable called 'picture' with 5 levels (pict1, pict2, etc.). I am following the answer provided [here][1], which allows me to successfully generate the data. However, I need each level of 'picture' to occur the same number of times (i.e. 11 repetitions of each level = 55 total observations per subject). Here is a reproducible example of what has worked to far (code from user: ocram): library(dummies) #------ parameters ------ n <- 1000 beta0 <- 0.07 betaB <- 0.1 betaC <- -0.15 betaD <- -0.03 betaE <- 0.9 #------------------------ #------ initialisation ------ beta0Hat <- rep(NA, 1000) betaBHat <- rep(NA, 1000) betaCHat <- rep(NA, 1000) betaDHat <- rep(NA, 1000) betaEHat <- rep(NA, 1000) #---------------------------- #------ simulations ------ for(i in 1:1000) { #data generation x <- sample(x=c("pict1","pict2", "pict3", "pict4", "pict5"), size=n, replace=TRUE, prob=rep(1/5, 5)) #(a) linpred <- cbind(1, dummy(x)[, -1]) %*% c(beta0, betaB, betaC, betaD, betaE) #(b) pi <- exp(linpred) / (1 + exp(linpred)) #(c) y <- rbinom(n=n, size=1, prob=pi) #(d) data <- data.frame(picture=x, choice=y) #fit the logistic model mod <- glm(choice ~ picture, family="binomial", data=data) #save the estimates beta0Hat[i] <- mod$coef[1] betaBHat[i] <- mod$coef[2] betaCHat[i] <- mod$coef[3] betaDHat[i] <- mod$coef[4] betaEHat[i] <- mod$coef[5] } However, as you can see from the output, each level of the factor 'picture' does not occur the same number of times (i.e. 200 times each). > summary(data) picture choice pict1:200 Min. :0.000 pict2:207 1st Qu.:0.000 pict3:217 Median :1.000 pict4:163 Mean :0.559 pict5:213 3rd Qu.:1.000 Max. :1.000 Moreover, it is not entirely clear to me how to manipulate the initial beta values as to determine the probability of success/failure for each level of 'picture'. I cannot comment the original question because I do not yet have the necessary reputation points. [1]: http://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/49916/simulating-data-for-logistic-regression-with-a-categorical-variable