st: RE: constrained sum of random values

["Nick Cox" <n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk>]

I assume you also mean that they come from a uniform distribution. 

set obs 77
gen x = uniform()
su x, meanonly 
replace x = 9900 * x / r(sum) 

Nick 
n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk 

Carlo Lazzaro

is there any way for imposing Stata 9.2/SE to create a variable composed
of
77 random values so that the sum of these random values is 9900?

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