Re: st: how to simulate an arbitrary distribution

[Jeph Herrin <junk@spandrel.net>]

Perfect - thanks.


Maarten buis wrote:
> > I have a dataset of 1500 observations, each with an
> > identifier and a -y- value. -y- is highly skewed, and
> > nothing I've tried seems to normalize it.
> >
> > I'd like to simulate the distribution of -y-. Is there
> > a reasonable way to do this if I can't find a transform
> > of it that looks like a standard distribution?
> You can sample with replacement from the empirical 
> distribution of y using -bsample-:
>
> keep y
> bsample 
> The variable y is now a random draw from the empirical 
> distribution of y.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Maarten
>
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