st: generating random vars with logistic distribution

[Kit Baum <baum@bc.edu>]

Tom Steichen's message suggested that Hilbe's rnd contained this RNG.  
rnd is contained in STB-28, updated in STB-44, neither of which  
contain generalized logistic distribution. We had a package on SSC  
named rnd, which contained updates to three ado-files--those for Chi- 
squared, t and F, allowing for non-centrality---as well as a help  
file describing the gen. logistic RNG, but not the code.

I combined the apparent latest version of rnd, from users directory  
on stata.com (located with search rnd) with the updated versions of  
those 4 files from SSC. The SSC package rnd now contains everything  
that is out there, including the updated three RNGs.

ssc install rnd, replace

As Tom indicated, routine rndglog can be used to draw from a logistic  
distribution.

Kit Baum, Boston College Economics
http://ideas.repec.org/e/pba1.html


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