st: Re: simulations

[baum <baum@bc.edu>]

--On Monday, September 16, 2002 2:33 -0400 PeterH 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
Simulations of what? What is the model to which a normally distributed 
error is to be added? If you can be more specific as to what you're trying 
to simulate, it would be easier to provide assistance.

Thanks
Kit

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