Re: st: random numbers generator

["Cassio M. Turra" <cmturra@gmail.com>]

Terrific. Many thanks.

On 5/6/07, Maarten buis <maartenbuis@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> --- "Cassio M. Turra" <cmturra@gmail.com> 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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