Antoine Terracol <[email protected]>:
Except the poster wanted resampling with replacement, so you need to
generate a random obs to draw from (for each obs) from the integers 1
to N (not simply randomize the order of obs). Look in bsample.ado for
a "fast method for resample of size _N"
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 2:12 PM, Antoine Terracol
<[email protected]> wrote:
> In addition to -bsample- and -merge-, another solution is:
>
> clear
> set obs 10
> g x=rnormal()
> g rnd=uniform()
> egen rank=rank(rnd)
> g y=x[rank]
> li
> drop rank
>
>
> Antoine
>
> 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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