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Re: st: How to sample uniformly over a set of specific observations?


From   "Svend Juul" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   Re: st: How to sample uniformly over a set of specific observations?
Date   Sun, 14 Oct 2007 21:03:34 +0200

Tiago wrote:
 
Suppose I have the following data set:
 
var1 var2 var3
0.5 0.5 0.25
0.4 0.4 0.16
0.3 0.4 0.12
0.8 0.4 0.32
0.4 0.2 0.08
 
In this sense, I would like to generate a new variable, say var4, which
may take one out of the 5 values presented (with equal probabilities).
I could not think about an easy way to do that using Stata when I have
several observations and, in some cases, repeated observations as well.
 
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With three candidate variables:
 
   set seed 12345          // if you need to reproduce exactly
   generate x = uniform()
   generate var4 = var1
   replace var4 = var2 if x > 1/3
   replace var4 = var3 if x > 2/3
 
But you write about "the 5 values presented". You have five observations; 
three values per obervation, but 15 values in total. So I am not quite 
sure what you are looking for.
 
Hope this helps, anyway.
 
Svend
 
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