Hi,
If you want exactly 267 in the first group, won't the following achieve this
exactly?
gen u = runiform()
sort u
gen split = _n <= 267
More generally (i.e. with _N!=800), you could use -ceil(_N/3)- or
-floor(_N/3)- to get 1/3, rounded up or down as desired.
HTH,
Glenn
"Martin Weiss" <[email protected]> wrote:
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"exactly a third of observations in the desired group"
How do you know that the split will be exact. Even leaving aside the
question whether ".33" is close enough to one third to warrant the
statement, the uniform number generator will still be noisy, i.e. the true
proportion will most likely be different from 1/3...
HTH
Martin
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