Re: st: random draw of single variable, not whole data

[Antoine Terracol <terracol@univ-paris1.fr>]

In addition to -bsample- and -merge-, another solution is:

clear
set obs 10
g x=rnormal()
g rnd=uniform()
egen rank=rank(rnd)
g y=x[rank]
li
drop rank


Antoine

Florian Wakolbinger wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> is it possible to randomly draw numbers out of a variable x and write it 
> into another variable y
>
> i.e. if
>
> x
> 1
> 2
> 3
> 4
> 5
>
> then y could be, for instance
>
> y
> 3
> 5
> 3
> 2
> 4
>
> all numbers in y are randomly drawn from x. how is it possible to 
> construct such a variable y in stata?
>
> thanks, and kind regards
> florian
>
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