Re: st: Generating a logistically distributed random variable.

[Antoine Terracol <Antoine.Terracol@univ-paris1.fr>]

Hello.

To generate standard random logistic variables, you can use the 
following code (to be saved as drawlogit.ado in your personal ado files 
directory):

cap prog drop drawlogit
program define drawlogit
version 7.0
syntax newvarlist  [if] [in] [, double]
tokenize "`varlist'"
while "`1'"!="" {
                       g `double' `1' =ln(1/uniform()-1) `if' `in'
                       mac shift
                       }
end


alternatively, and for more general distributions, see the --rnd- suite 
(findit rnd)

Hope this helps,
Antoine


epowers@moore.sc.edu wrote:


> To generate a normal (0,1) random variable you use 
> invnorm(uniform()).  How do you generate a random variable that is 
> logistically distributed?
>
> Sincerely, Eric Powers
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