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Re: st: create unique random number variable


From   [email protected] (Brendan Halpin)
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: create unique random number variable
Date   Tue, 24 Apr 2012 11:08:22 +0100

On Tue, Apr 24 2012, raoul reulen wrote:

> I'm trying to generate a random number variable like this:
>
> .set seed 12345
> .gen x = int(1000*uniform())
>
> However, the random numbers in variable x are not unique. Is there a
> way to ensure they are unique?

set seed 12345
set obs 1000
gen x = _n
gen so = uniform()
sort so
drop so

That's one way; you will need to do it separately from the main data set
and merge it in afterwards (-merge 1:1 _n using randomnumber- or
similar). 

Brendan
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