Dear Statalist,
I would like to know if it is possible, and if so how, to have Stata and SAS
generating the same sequence of random numbers.
I've tried setting the same seed value in both packages with no success (see
example of the command and output below).
Any help will be much appreciated.
Cheers,
JP
*************** command ***************
Stata command
set seed 1
g z1 = uniform()
set seed 2
g z2 = uniform()
SAS command
Z1=UNIFORM(1);
Z2=UNIFORM(2);
*************** output ***************
SAS STATA
seed 1 2 seed 1 2
N Z1 Z2 n z1 z2
1 0.18496 0.97009 1 0.6681852 0.850512
2 0.39982 0.2594 2 0.9279611 0.0515642
3 0.9216 0.96928 3 0.4844814 0.6303533
4 0.54298 0.53169 4 0.469739 0.6991696
5 0.04979 0.06657 5 0.9726482 0.518447
6 0.81932 0.52387 6 0.5563972 0.3360431
7 0.85339 0.06718 7 0.8156933 0.1747266
8 0.95702 0.29719 8 0.8364499 0.9104601
9 0.27261 0.68993 9 0.5807183 0.3874338
10 0.97676 0.22651 10 0.3767964 0.409848
11 0.68824 0.41276 11 0.1186234 0.9596469
12 0.55855 0.28723 12 0.5055883 0.1529711
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