Rewrite your command as follows:
From: generate rn=rnormal (0,9)
To: generate rn=rnormal(0,9)
And it will work.
If you are starting from an empty dataset be sure to
set obs 100
first.
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Thomas J. Steichen
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-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Richard Gates
Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 3:45 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: st: normal distributions
that works
On Thu, 2009-03-19 at 11:13 -0600, Rodrigo Briceño wrote:
> Dear all. Thanks for providing me some useful references for making tables.
> I would like to know if there is a function similar to this that I
> found in R: norm <- rnorm(100, 2, 5)
> The trick is to generate a variable that contains 100 values with are
> normal distributed with mean 2 and stdev 5.
>
> I found that rnormal is a function in Stata, but I am not sure about
> the way to write the sintax to produce that outcome. I tried with:
> generate rn=rnormal (0,9) but a message telling me rnormal is not
> found appeared.
>
> I looked into FAQ but there are no related issues...
>
> Thanks!
>
>
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