Re: st: RE: Stata vs. SAS (random number generation)

[Chris Ruebeck <ruebeckc@lafayette.edu>]

I'm not terribly familiar with the literature, but if you don't want to 
use Tim's solution (which I think is an excellent one), then you might 
adapt code from Numerical Recipes (Press, Flannery, Teukolsky, and 
Vetterling) to Stata and SAS.

Chris


On Apr 6, 2005, at 5:56 PM, McKenna, Timothy wrote:

> In general I don't think you can get SAS and Stata to do this.
>
> A simple, although embarrassingly inelegant, solution would be to have
> Stata (or SAS) generate the random numbers.  Then output them to a text
> file and have the other program read them in.  You would need to be
> careful about precision issues, but otherwise it should work fine.
>
> -Tim
>
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> Wagner de Azevedo
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>
> Dear Statalist,
>
> I would like to know if it is possible, and if so how, to have Stata 
> and SAS generating the same sequence of random numbers.
>
> I've tried setting the same seed value in both packages with no 
> success (see example of the command and output below).
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