st: Poisson random number generator

["Andrea Vezzulli" <andrea.vezzulli@hp700.statistica.unimib.it>]

Dear All

i would like to know if STATA v8 can generate pseudo-random numbers from a 
Poisson distribution having a user-defined parameter lambda (the mean of the 
process)

Thank you

Andrea

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