--- "Victor M. Zammit" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I need to generate dataset from a chi2(1) distribution. I have
> > Stata version 9
--- Maarten buis <[email protected]> wrote:
> gen x = invchi2(1,uniform())
The logic behind this approach is discussed here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverse_transform_sampling
I hope this clarifies my rather cryptic answer a bit.
-- Maarten
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