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st: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: Stata stuck in loop with -rndpoi-?
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"Martin Weiss" <[email protected]>
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st: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: Stata stuck in loop with -rndpoi-?
Date
Thu, 13 May 2010 17:40:15 +0200
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" look at the code."
I don`t get this: Which problem is solved by looking at the code here? I did
earlier, and could not tell that the problem was with "exp(710)". Maybe that
is just me, maybe not...
HTH
Martin
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Nick Cox
Sent: Donnerstag, 13. Mai 2010 17:32
To: [email protected]
Subject: st: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: Stata stuck in loop with -rndpoi-?
As someone said, if all else fails, look at the code. -viewsource
rndpoi- gets you there in one.
Nick
[email protected]
Karen Wright
Thank you very much for the help.
Karen
>>> "Martin Weiss" <[email protected]> 13/05/2010 16:06 >>>
<>
" You need something with a better algorithm."
-genpoisson-, as in -findit genpoisson, does not complain or behave
weirdly:
*************
clear*
set obs 10000
genpoisson x, mu(710)
su
hist x
*************
HTH
Martin
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Nick Cox
Sent: Donnerstag, 13. Mai 2010 16:57
To: [email protected]
Subject: st: RE: RE: RE: RE: Stata stuck in loop with -rndpoi-?
It's an underflow problem. -rndpoi- at one point calculates exp(-mean),
but try
. di exp(-710)
and you will get 0. Even if you get results for means near 700, they
will be of dubious accuracy. You need something with a better algorithm.
Alternatively, won't a Poisson with mean 700 look pretty near Gaussian
any way? I get the skewness and kurtosis to be
. di 1/sqrt(700)
.03779645
. di 3 + 1/700
3.0014286
which would cause broad and continuing smiles of pleasure in many
branches of statistical science.
Nick
[email protected]
Nick Cox
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?
************************
*this works:
rndpoi 10000 694.5
*this doesn't:
rndpoi 10000 710
************************
I am currently using Stata 10.0 on Windows.
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