It's not clear if you want sampling with or without replacement.
With replacement:
gen y = x[round(_N*uniform(),1)+1]
without replacement:
egen index=rank(uniform())
gen y = x[index]
hth,
Jeph
Florian Wakolbinger wrote:
Dear all,
is it possible to randomly draw numbers out of a variable x and write it
into another variable y
i.e. if
x
1
2
3
4
5
then y could be, for instance
y
3
5
3
2
4
all numbers in y are randomly drawn from x. how is it possible to
construct such a variable y in stata?
thanks, and kind regards
florian
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