My understanding is that this method is fast, passes appropriate tests
and has a huge period (2^19937 -1), much greater than Stata's KISS
generator.
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Sent: 23 August 2007 09:22
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Subject: st: RE: Random number generator
Why do you feel there is a need for a new version of -uniform()-?
Nick
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Paul Silcocks BM BCh, MSc, FRCPath, FFPH, CStat
> Has anyone found a way of incorporating the Mersenne Twister
> pseudo-random number generator into Stata? There is freeware
> C++ code at
> http://www.bedaux.net/mtrand/ but I'm not clear how this could be
> adapted into an ado file. What would be nice would be a new version
> of uniform(). Stata technical support recommend using Mata as it is
> closer in syntax to C++ than the Stata ado language (though this
> doesn't help me much as I've not got to grips with Mata).
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