st: RE: RE: how to simulate an arbitrary distribution

["Verkuilen, Jay" <JVerkuilen@gc.cuny.edu>]

Oh, one other point on this:

I just picked up the most excellent book by Marshall and Olkin, Life
Distributions:

 
http://www.springer.com/engineering/production+eng/book/978-0-387-20333-
1?detailsPage=otherBooks&CIPageCounter=CI_MORE_BOOKS_BY_AUTHOR0

It's all probability and no stat, but very useful for choosing a model
for positive semi-bounded data.  

Jay

*
*   For searches and help try:
*   http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/res/findit.html
*   http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq
*   http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/