Dear Brendan and Maarten
thanks for your help and sorry for not being very specific.
I will give you and example of what I'm trying to do.
I need to input age of death for individuals between single years of age.
Let's suppose that for the ages 20 to 25, I have the following
distribution of ages of death among those who die (these are not real
data).
20 0.40
21 0.20
22 0.15
23 0.20
24 0.05
I need to draw random numbers based on this distribution.
any more specific help?
Thanks a lot. Cassio
On 5/6/07, Maarten buis <[email protected]> wrote:
--- "Cassio M. Turra" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, I need to generate random numbers from a discrete probability
> distribution (drawn from a life table). Does anyone know how I can do
> it in Stata?
You are not very specific, so it is hard to give a specific answer.
This post http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2007-04/msg00906.html
gives a general description on how to draw from a dichotomous
distribution and is easily generalized to other discrete distributions.
Hope this helps,
Maarten
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