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RE: st: AW: generate lognormal RV less than 20000 observations.
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RE: st: AW: generate lognormal RV less than 20000 observations.
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Fri, 9 Apr 2010 16:09:16 +0800
Hi, Martin,
Thanks for your help! could you tell me how return that 500 observations to a variable like we do for normal distribution:
set obs 500
gen x1=rnormal()
Thanks a gain!
samn
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> Subject: st: AW: generate lognormal RV less than 20000 observations.
> Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2010 09:50:36 +0200
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> So this function is part of a series of random number generators published
> by J. Hilbe and W. Linde-Zwirble, and accessible via -findit rndlgn-. What
> makes you think you need 20,000 obs? Just say:
>
> *************
> rndlgn 500 0 0.5
> *************
>
> Even if it did require 20,000 initially, you could still -keep in 1/500-...
>
> HTH
> Martin
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>
> Hi, folks,
> I know the function ' rndlgn' can generate lognormal RVs, but it requires
> the numbers of observation to be at 20000. Now, I want a list of only 500.
> What should I do then?
> thanks,
> samn
>
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