On Sunday 26 January 2003 11:50 am, Ronnie Babigumira wrote:
> Not sure I understand you, what exactly will be the diffrence between x1
> and x2 (list a few arbitrary entries)
Sorry for the vagueness :-) I'll try again:
Yn is a variable containing a pattern. Xn is egen generated data which must
contain the pattern but with slightly different proportions. Hence if Y1
contains 70 1's and 30 2's, then X1 might contain 68 1's and 32 2's. The
amount difference between X1 and Y1 would vary slightly each time X1 is
generated, and be randomly distributed:
Eg.
Y1 X1
1 1
1 2
1 1
1 2
1 1
1 2
1 1
2 2
2 1
2 1
So for over 100 Y variables I need some way to have egen look at the
proportions of 1's and 2's in each one of those variables using 'fill' or
whatever, generate similar data for X, where Xn varies slightly in the
proportions of 1's and 2's in each Yn.
I hope that makes sense? Probably some simple thing in Stata, (am using
version 7), but I cannot find it.
Thanks very much for any help you can render.
--Peter
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