Like so?
clear
range id 1 2000 2000
gen Minyear=1990+floor(10*uniform())
gen Maxyear=Minyear+floor(10*uniform())
gen rndyear=Miny+round(uniform()*(Maxy-Miny))
su
or perhaps you mean
gen rndyr=cond(uniform()>.5,Miny,Maxy)
?
On 3/8/07, Nasreen Khan <[email protected]> wrote:
I want to assign a random number based on the values of two variables.
My data set looks like this.
ID Minyear Maxyear
Nancy 1993 1994
Ramon 1996 1999
Eva 1992 1992
I want to create a variable called randomyear such that the year is randomly assignment between minyear and maxyear value.
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