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Re: st: random draw of single variable, not whole data


From   Antoine Terracol <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: random draw of single variable, not whole data
Date   Thu, 26 Feb 2009 20:12:21 +0100

In addition to -bsample- and -merge-, another solution is:

clear
set obs 10
g x=rnormal()
g rnd=uniform()
egen rank=rank(rnd)
g y=x[rank]
li
drop rank


Antoine

Florian Wakolbinger wrote:
Dear all,

is it possible to randomly draw numbers out of a variable x and write it into another variable y

i.e. if

x
1
2
3
4
5

then y could be, for instance

y
3
5
3
2
4

all numbers in y are randomly drawn from x. how is it possible to construct such a variable y in stata?

thanks, and kind regards
florian

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