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Re: st: AW: drawnorm for discrete variables
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Tyler Frazier <[email protected]>
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Re: st: AW: drawnorm for discrete variables
Date
Fri, 30 Apr 2010 13:47:44 +0200
these are my variables -- I want to synthetically generate a persons
table for approximately 200,000 people
. summarize
Variable | Obs Mean Std. Dev. Min Max
-------------+--------------------------------------------------------
hhrelate | 3447 2.714244 1.887394 1 10
sex | 3447 1.506818 .5000261 1 2
-------------+--------------------------------------------------------
age | 3447 27.49956 17.14807 3 90
ethnicit | 3291 22.25433 16.06378 1 90
religion | 3445 5.190131 4.651516 1 96
marstatu | 2808 3.746439 2.297089 1 6
educatio | 3181 3.600126 3.494621 1 16
-------------+--------------------------------------------------------
income | 3444 6046706 2.21e+07 0 5.76e+08
occupati | 1382 561.4363 245.7125 11 933
industry | 1376 5334.578 2261.297 111 9900
sector | 757 6.015852 2.695727 1 10
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 1:30 PM, Martin Weiss <[email protected]> wrote:
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> What do you want your _discrete_ normal variable to look like in theory? As
> in:
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>
> *****
> clear*
> set obs 10000
> gen mydiscrvar=irecode(rnormal(),-4,-3,-2,-1,0,1,2,3,4)
> hist mydiscrvar
> *****
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>
>
> HTH
> Martin
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> Betreff: st: drawnorm for discrete variables
>
> Whats the best way to drawnorm for discrete variables in stata -- for
> example ethnicity, education, religion, occupation, etc...
>
> Thank you,
> Ty Frazier
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