Shihe Fan wrote:
Could any one help me out on the following problem of producing a list
of random numbers for random assignment to groups?
I want to produce a list of random numbers (total sample size =1000) for
random assignment to subgroups as listed below. How should I code this
in STATA (run Graziano and Raulin's random number generator program
repeatedly will achieve this. But it will be tedious because my real
problem is much bigger than this dummy problem)
Group sub-group sample
1 1 x
1 2 x
1 3 x
1 4 x
1 5 x
2 1 x
2 2 x
2 3 x
2 4 x
2 5 x
...
5 1 x
5 2 x
5 3 x
5 4 x
5 5 x
Total 1000
The xs are random numbers.
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Your question is not very clear to me.
Do you have a thousand individuals that you want to allocate randomly to five subgroups (treatments)? In that case:
gen subgroup=ceil(5*uniform())
But you write that the xs are random numbers. Do you want to create 25 integers that are random and have the sum of 1000? (If yes, why?).
I think you need to be more explicit about what you need.
Svend
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