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Re: st: normal distributions


From   Rodrigo Briceño <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: normal distributions
Date   Fri, 20 Mar 2009 15:29:15 -0600

Thanks for your responses. You were really helpful!

2009/3/20 Richard Gates <[email protected]>:
> that works
>
> On Thu, 2009-03-19 at 11:13 -0600, Rodrigo Briceño wrote:
>> Dear all. Thanks for providing me some useful references for making tables.
>> I would like to know if there is a function similar to this that I
>> found in R: norm <- rnorm(100, 2, 5)
>> The trick is to generate a variable that contains 100 values with are
>> normal distributed with mean 2 and stdev 5.
>>
>> I found that rnormal is a function in Stata, but I am not sure about
>> the way to write the sintax to produce that outcome. I tried with:
>> generate rn=rnormal (0,9) but a message telling me rnormal is not
>> found appeared.
>>
>> I looked into FAQ but there are no related issues...
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>>
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