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From | Maarten Buis <maartenlbuis@gmail.com> |
To | statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu |
Subject | Re: st: Gen Randomized geo coordinates within a range |
Date | Fri, 19 Aug 2011 12:36:25 +0200 |
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 11:17 AM, <graupel75@gmail.com> wrote: > I need to generate a set of random geographic coordinates (x,y) given > a central point, within a given range. Alternatively, if you want your range to be a circle with radius .5 you can do so as below *-------------- begin example -------------- clear input x y 1 1 5 5 1 5 end forvalues i = 1/30 { local phi = 2*runiform()*_pi local r = .5*runiform() gen xran`i' = `r'*cos(`phi') + x gen yran`i' = `r'*sin(`phi') + y local gr `"`gr' || scatter yran`i' xran`i'"' } scatter y x, aspect(1) `gr' *-------------- end example ----------------- (For more on examples I sent to the Statalist see: http://www.maartenbuis.nl/example_faq ) Hope this helps, Maarten -------------------------- Maarten L. Buis Institut fuer Soziologie Universitaet Tuebingen Wilhelmstrasse 36 72074 Tuebingen Germany http://www.maartenbuis.nl -------------------------- * * 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/