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On Mon, 16 Sep 2002, Hayes, Peter wrote:
> Hi
> I am a new STATA user and wonder if someone could point me in the right
> direction. I wish to carry out a series of 10, 100, 1000, and 10,000
> simulations (to estimate CI and coverage probability) with various sample
> sizes with a known population mean and standard deviation (normally
> distributed). I have managed this OK for the Poisson, binomial
> distributions but could not find a suitable ado file by using net search
> etc.
> Thanks
>
> PeterH
>
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