These are details you can keep hidden from us. Often
the simplest approach is to map irregular ids to
regular ids 1 up which you then use for sampling.
There are many ways to do that, including -egen, group()-.
Whether you translate back to the irregular ids
is then up to you.
Nick
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Raphael Fraser
> I am only interested in uniqueness.
>
> I have 100 patients with ids 1-200. There are two observations per id.
> I would like to generate another id which I call bsid which ranges
> between 301-500.
>
> On 1/23/07, Marcello Pagano <[email protected]> wrote:
> > What other properties do you want these numbers to have?
> > How many do you need? If it is just uniqueness that you
> > want you might try random permutations of the integers
> > between 50 and 100. That you can do with Stata.
> >
> > m.p.
> >
> > Raphael Fraser wrote:
> > > How do I generate random numbers between say, 50-100 that do not
> > > repeat themselves? I have used the following code but
> this allow the
> > > numbers to repeat themselves:
> > >
> > > gen bsid=50*int(50*uniform()+0.5)
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