Peter Graven asked about generating random values from percentiles,
I offered a program, and I now see that Nick Cox <n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk>
had already written,
> These percentiles presumably came from somewhere. Why not sample from
> the dataset that produced them?
I wholeheartedly agree. If Peter has the data from which the percentiles
were calculated, resampling (sampling with replacement from the data)
is the way to go. The relevant Stata command is -bsample-.
-- Bill
wgould@stata.com
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