--- "Cassio M. Turra" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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.
gen ran = uniform()
gen agedeath = cond(ran<.4 , 20, /*
*/ cond(ran<.6 , 21, /*
*/ cond(ran<.75 , 22, /*
*/ cond(ran<.95 , 23, 24))))
For an explanation see:
http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2007-04/msg00906.html
Hope this helps,
Maarten
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Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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