Tiago wrote:
Suppose I have the following data set:
var1 var2 var3
0.5 0.5 0.25
0.4 0.4 0.16
0.3 0.4 0.12
0.8 0.4 0.32
0.4 0.2 0.08
In this sense, I would like to generate a new variable, say var4, which
may take one out of the 5 values presented (with equal probabilities).
I could not think about an easy way to do that using Stata when I have
several observations and, in some cases, repeated observations as well.
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With three candidate variables:
set seed 12345 // if you need to reproduce exactly
generate x = uniform()
generate var4 = var1
replace var4 = var2 if x > 1/3
replace var4 = var3 if x > 2/3
But you write about "the 5 values presented". You have five observations;
three values per obervation, but 15 values in total. So I am not quite
sure what you are looking for.
Hope this helps, anyway.
Svend
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