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st: RE: generating random variables from logistic distribution


From   "Nick Cox" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: RE: generating random variables from logistic distribution
Date   Thu, 4 Aug 2005 21:52:20 +0100

I believe that, as usual, there are 
several ways of generalizing the logistic, 
each of which seems most natural to its own author. 

Nick 
[email protected] 

Kit Baum
 
> Not clear to me either how so-called generalized logistic  
> distribution relates to the garden variety one defined here. In any  
> case here is a routine in the style of Hilbe that does the 
> job, and a  
> test of whether it appears to meet the specs (which it does for  
> sufficiently large N):
> 
> capt program drop rndlog
> 
> *!version 1.0 04aug2005 CFBaum
> * following syntax of J. Hilbe rnd package
> * logistic distribution random number generator
> * per David Harrison msg to Statalist 04aug2005
> * Example: rndlog 1000 0 .5  [set obs 1000; 0 = mean; .5 = b]
> 
> program define rndlog
>          version 3.1
> *        set type double
>          cap drop xlogistic
>          qui     {
>                  local cases `1'
>                  set obs `cases'
>                  mac shift
>                  local mn `1'
>                  mac shift
>                  local b `1'
>                  mac shift
>                  tempvar ran1
>                  noi di in gr "( Generating " _c
>                  gen double `ran1' = `mn' - `b'*log(1/uniform() - 1)
>                  gen double xlog = `ran1'
>                  noi di in gr "." _c
>                  noi di in gr " )"
>                  noi di in bl "Variable " in ye "xlog " in bl 
> "created."
>                  lab var xlog "Logistic random variable"
> *                set type float
>         }
> end
> 
> clear
> 
> scalar mu=5
> scalar b=3
> rndlog 100000 mu b
> su xlog,detail
> assert reldif(r(mean),mu) < 0.01
> assert reldif(r(Var),1/3*_pi^2*b^2) < 0.01
> assert reldif(r(skewness),0) < 0.1
> assert reldif(r(kurtosis)-3.0,6/5) < 0.1

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