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> A problem in simulation torment me. Any suggestion is appreciated!
>
> I got a survey data (outcome: disease, yes/no), which is supposed to
> be too large in sample size. This could result in Type I
> Error. I try
> to solve this problem through simulating data.
>
> Based on the original data, I built a logistic model to obtain a
> fitted probability to each subject. And then, I want to simulate
> binary data for one particular health outcome (1 for yes
> and 0 for no)
> based on the fitted probability (from above step) using binomial
> probability distribution. But I don't know how to do this kind
> simulation is stata?
If I understand you correctly, this is the heart of
the matter:
Suppose probability of yes is 0.12345. Then
gen simulated = uniform() <= 0.12345
yields a variable with values 1 or 0 according
to whether random uniforms fall below or above
the stated threshold.
Nick
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