st: using loop to generate distributions with different means and standard deviations

[Lance Wiggains <lance.wiggains@gmail.com>]

Statalist members,

I'm trying to get Stata to generate a distribution of data from variables in
my data set.

My appended data looks like this
mean_var1=90
standard_deviation_var1=5
mean_var2=100
sd_var2=10
mean var3=110
sd_var3=15
and so on

I'm need a loop that will take my variables and create the
distributions for me.
I've been using the drawnorm command
     drawnorm name1, m(mean_var1) sd(sd_var1)
but I can't get it to recognize more than 1 variable at a time

I want it to perform the distribution command for each pair of my variables.
I.e. (m_var1, sd_var1), (m_var2, sd_var2) , (m_var3, sd_var3)

Thanks for your consideration,

Lance
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