Thank you Sergiy for the clarificaton.
Take care.
Sam
On Mon, 26 Feb 2007, Sergiy Radyakin wrote:
> Hi, Sam!
>
>
> Setting seed is enough:
>
> . set seed 1
>
> . di uniform()
> .66818523
>
> . di uniform()
> .92796107
>
> . di uniform()
> .48448141
>
> . set seed 1
>
> . di uniform()
> .66818523
>
> However, if you initially set seed to be equal to current time (rather then
> the constant 1 here) than time matters.
>
> Regards, Sergiy
>
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "SamL" <[email protected]>
> To: "Stata Listserve" <[email protected]>
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> Sent: Monday, February 26, 2007 8:02 PM
> Subject: st: Seed and time
>
>
> > Just a clarification requested. Nick Cox just seemed to indicate that to
> > replicate using seed one needs to also reference time. Have I
> > misunderstood? Or is time an alternative way to obtain a seed when one
> > does not care what it is? I guess I just want to assure that setting seed
> > *sets* the seed so that it replicates any other run with the same seed,
> > regardless of the time.
> >
> > Thanks a bunch.
> > Sam
> >
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