-findit random number poisson- brings up -rnd- and -gendist- , both of which
are utilities for random number generation.
Hope this helps,
Scott
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:owner-
> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Andrea Vezzulli
> Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2005 10:19 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: st: Poisson random number generator
>
> Dear All
>
> i would like to know if STATA v8 can generate pseudo-random numbers from a
> Poisson distribution having a user-defined parameter lambda (the mean of
> the
> process)
>
> Thank you
>
> Andrea
>
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