--- [email protected] wrote:
> My simple question is as follows:
> Suppose I have two variables called "n" and "p" (2 observations each), say:
> n p
> 452 0.25
> 125 0.62
>
> In this respect, my objective is to generate a third variable called, "c" as:
>
> c ~ binomial (p�i�, n[i]), where i = 1,and 2(rows). The result
> would look like this:
>
> n p c
> 452 0.25 c1
> 125 0.62 c5
>
> where:
> c1 ~ bin (0.25, 452)
> c5 ~ bin (0.62, 125)
>
> Hence, is there a straighforward way to obtain these results with a simple
> command? I will be extremely grateful for any help again.
Nick and I had trouble posting my answer to statalist, so I answered
Tiago privately. I've written a more general answer and put it on my
website:
http://home.fsw.vu.nl/m.buis/wp/discrete.html
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