Re: st: -generate- and run time contingencies

[Richard Williams <Richard.A.Williams.5@ND.edu>]

At 11:09 AM 1/30/2006, n j cox wrote:
> // not tested
> gen x = uniform()
> gen byte OK = x >= 0.8
> capture assert OK == 1
>
> while _rc {
>         replace x = cond(x < 0.8, uniform(), x)
>         replace OK = x >= 0.8
>         capture assert OK == 1
> }
I think you've got a winner.  I tried it with a 1,000 cases and then 
100,000, and it went pretty quickly.  Then, I tried it with 
10,000,000 cases - it took a few minutes but it finally got it done.


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