Re: st: Sampling from a t-distribution using Stata

["Stas Kolenikov" <skolenik@gmail.com>]

Oops. Forgot the degrees of freedom:

g double t = m + sd* invnorm(uniform())/sqrt( invchi2(_N-3), uniform()
)/ (_N-3) )

On 6/4/07, Stas Kolenikov <skolenik@gmail.com> wrote:
> How about
>
> g double t = m + sd* invnorm(uniform())/sqrt( invchi2(_N-3), uniform() )
>
> On 6/4/07, tiago.pereira@incor.usp.br <tiago.pereira@incor.usp.br> wrote:
> > Dear statalisters,
> >
> > I would like to generate a new variable called "x", in which "x" has a
> > t-distribution with n-3 degrees of freedom (where n is the number of new
> > generated observations), a mean "m" and a standard deviation, "sd", that
> > is:
> >
> > x ~ t-distribution[n-3 df] (m, sd)
> >
> > How do I obtain a set of 100 new observations assuming that m=0.4 and
> > sd=0.05 using Stata?
> >
> > I will be very grateful for any help.

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