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From | Austin Nichols <austinnichols@gmail.com> |
To | statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu |
Subject | Re: st: AW: RE: RE: RE: how to choose the # for --set seed #-- |
Date | Fri, 5 Mar 2010 13:37:23 -0500 |
There are numerous possibilities: . set seed -2902 . di c(seed) X3e966a2ac43f462544a474abacbdd93d0312 . set seed 19520121 . di c(seed) Xe0da5f7dc43f462544a474abacbdd93d063f On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 1:29 PM, Martin Weiss <martin.weiss1@gmx.de> wrote: > > <> > > " Hmmm, can you feed a negative number to -set seed-, Tony?" > > > "# should be a positive integer." > > (from -help set seed-) > > > HTH > Martin > > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu > [mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Martin Weiss > Sent: Freitag, 5. März 2010 19:27 > To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu > Subject: RE: st: AW: RE: RE: RE: how to choose the # for --set seed #-- > > > <> > > Hmmm, can you feed a negative number to -set seed-, Tony? > > ******* > di `=date("21 Jan 1952", "DMY")' > ******* > > If this is true, then Nick was born "below" the Stata reference line > 1/1/1960... > > > HTH > Martin > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu > [mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Austin Nichols > Sent: Freitag, 5. März 2010 19:21 > To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu > Subject: Re: st: AW: RE: RE: RE: how to choose the # for --set seed #-- > > Martin Weiss <martin.weiss1@gmx.de>: > But see > http://www.stata-journal.com/sjpdf.html?articlenum=pr0006 > (p.317) for a more plausible candidate, and note that Jan 21 > re-appears elsewhere, e.g. > http://www.stata-journal.com/sjpdf.html?articlenum=dm0018 > > On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 1:10 PM, Austin Nichols <austinnichols@gmail.com> > wrote: >> Martin Weiss <martin.weiss1@gmx.de>: >> If only because it is contradicted by >> http://www.stata-journal.com/sjpdf.html?articlenum=st0116 >> p.575: >> "Why anyone would want other people to be even a day older than they >> really are is a mystery to me in middle age, but the effect appears >> genuine." >> >> On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 12:39 PM, Martin Weiss <martin.weiss1@gmx.de> > wrote: >>> "March 2006" > (http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2006-03/msg00574.html) >>> can probably be safely discarded? >> * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/