On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 12:44 PM, Tomáš Houška wrote:
> I need to generate a random variable from uniform distribution, but
> the probabilities are not not same for each option.
Than it is not a uniform distribution, but a discrete distribution.
Several tips on how to draw a distribution like that are given here:
M.L. Buis (2007), "Stata tip 48: Discrete uses for uniform()", The
Stata Journal, 7(3), pp. 434-435.
<http://www.stata-journal.com/article.html?article=pr0032>
-- Maarten
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