Re: st: Random number seed

[Adrian.P.Mander@gsk.com]

You could use date and time as the seed...
Add the following lines to the start of your program if you are using STATA
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tokenize "`c(current_time)'" ,parse(":")
local seed "`1'`3'`5'"
local edate = date("`c(current_date)'","dmy")
local seed "`edate'`seed'"
set seed `seed'

cheers
Ade

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Can the stata random number seed be itself randomized?

I am running a program called "market.do" in the batch mode without
invoking/opening stata. This program carries out an analysis based on a set
of 1,000 uniform random numbers it generates.

However, since the random seed is always the same everytime I run the
program in batch mode, I get the same set of 1,000 random numbers each time
I run this program in batch mode. Results are identical which defeats the
purpose.

Can this be changed?

Thanks,
Subh


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