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st: RE: RE: RE: Stata stuck in loop with -rndpoi-?
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"Nick Cox" <[email protected]> 
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st: RE: RE: RE: Stata stuck in loop with -rndpoi-? 
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Thu, 13 May 2010 15:48:16 +0100 
What I said in 2003 still holds. 
Nick 
[email protected] 
Martin Weiss
Also note Nick`s advice at
http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2003-08/msg00197.html, though
things
may have changed materially in the meantime...
Karen Wright
Unfortunately my IT department has a problem with letting us upgrade
Stata,
they have to perform it and do not want to - which is why I was trying
to do
it without the ugrade.  Thank you, I shall just have to pester them
again!
>>> "Martin Weiss" <[email protected]> 13/05/2010 14:59:48 >>>
You could just upgrade for free to Stata 10.1, and use the -rpoisson()-
function...
Karen Wright
I am attempting to generate 10000 random number based on a poisson
distribution with mean from my data, using -rndpoi- (from ssc).
I seem to encounter a problem when the mean is greater than 700.  Would
anyone be able to help me, either with an alternative method of
producing
the figures I need, or what I am currently doing wrong?
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*this works:
rndpoi 10000 694.5
*this doesn't:
rndpoi 10000 710
 
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I am currently using Stata 10.0 on Windows. 
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