Re: st: How to generate a variable out of an empty dataset?

[Richard Williams <Richard.A.Williams.5@ND.edu>]

At 11:32 AM 7/19/2006, Timothy.Mak@iop.kcl.ac.uk wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to run simulation exercises where I have to generate variables.
> The only way I know of doing it is by doing -drawnorm- and then replacing
> the values one by one - very inefficient.
>
> I also tried -svmat- but if I want to have more than 800 observations I
> have problems cos I can't generate a matrix with more than 800 rows.
>
> THere must be some simpler ways...
I am not totally sure I understand your problem with drawnorm, but 
pgs. 8-10 of this handout show how corr2data can be used to create 
simulated data sets:

http://www.nd.edu/~rwilliam/stats1/OLS-Stata.pdf


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