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Drawing permutations from a probability distribution

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I am unsure if an algorithm exists to do this:

I have an alphabet {a,b,c,d,e,f} which I have many permutations of. e.g.

abfdce cedbaf dacfeb 

and i know that on average 'a' occurs in the first position with probability x, 'b' occurs with probability y etc. so i have aggregate probabilities about which letter occurs in which position. How do I draw new permutations such that, on average, they have the same statistics as the data i have? My alphabet size is ~50 so i can't enumerate them all or anything like that.

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