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Re: st: How to generate a variable out of an empty dataset?


From   Richard Williams <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: How to generate a variable out of an empty dataset?
Date   Wed, 19 Jul 2006 12:59:58 -0500

At 11:32 AM 7/19/2006, [email protected] wrote:
Hi,

I'm trying to run simulation exercises where I have to generate variables.
The only way I know of doing it is by doing -drawnorm- and then replacing
the values one by one - very inefficient.

I also tried -svmat- but if I want to have more than 800 observations I
have problems cos I can't generate a matrix with more than 800 rows.

THere must be some simpler ways...
I am not totally sure I understand your problem with drawnorm, but pgs. 8-10 of this handout show how corr2data can be used to create simulated data sets:

http://www.nd.edu/~rwilliam/stats1/OLS-Stata.pdf


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