To clarify my previous email, I know that there is the rnd function in
Stata. But I wanted to use my own random numbers to generate these
distributions. For example, a gamma distrubtion can be generated as
gen gam1=invgammap(2.0,u1)
where I can specify "u1". Thanks,
Anirban
On Thu, 22 Aug 2002, anirban basu wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I was wondering if there is any easy way to generate random variates for
> Poisson, Negative Binomial and Inverse Gaussian distributions where
> E(y) = mu = exp(xb) in Stata. Thanks,
>
> Anirban
>
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