--- Ahmed Arif <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have a dataset with variables x and y. the dataset has 5000
> observation. i want to generate another variable xmiss, such that 50%
> of x values are dropped (recoded as missing value) randomly from the
> dataset w/o affecting values of y. is there an easy way to do this?
M.L. Buis (2007), "Stata tip 48: Discrete uses for uniform()", The
Stata Journal, 7(3), pp. 434-435.
You can find a pre-publication draft on my website.
-- Maarten
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Department of Social Research Methodology
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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The Netherlands
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Buitenveldertselaan 3 (Metropolitan), room Z434
+31 20 5986715
http://home.fsw.vu.nl/m.buis/
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