Antoine Terracol <[email protected]>:
Except the poster wanted resampling with replacement, so you need to
generate a random obs to draw from (for each obs) from the integers 1
to N (not simply randomize the order of obs). Look in bsample.ado for
a "fast method for resample of size _N"
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 2:12 PM, Antoine Terracol
<[email protected]> wrote:
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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