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st: Question about -drawnorm- for two normally distributed variables


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Subject   st: Question about -drawnorm- for two normally distributed variables
Date   Tue, 18 Mar 2008 14:06:58 -0300 (BRT)

Thank you so much, Austin!

>Your code doesn't match your stated desiderata:

Yes!, my bad !

variable 1= 125+-25 mg/dl
variable 2= 120+-50 mg/dl


>Sampling variation is normal; if you want to match .7 exactly use

my bad again!

Definitely, sampling variability will not provide exact values. However,
simulating a large number of observations will provide very close estimates.
But the problem it that I was simulating with a non-updated do-file (with
n=10).
Simulations with 10000000 indeed provide a covariance very close to that
inputed.


. corr cholesterol1 cholesterol2, covar
(obs=10000000)

             | choles~1 choles~2
-------------+------------------
cholesterol1 |  25.0221
cholesterol2 |  .697355  49.9838
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