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Nikolaos might also like to acquaint himself with the -drawnorm- command:
***
drop _all
drawnorm x y, n(20) means(15 18) /*
*/corr(1, 0 \ 0, 1) sds(4 6) /*
*/cstorage(full) seed(41322)
su
***
Two problems are apparent in his request:
The small sample size makes deviations from his desired values for the mean
and standard deviation very likely. If he is willing to increase the sample
size, this problem will (almost) vanish.
The reason people recommend the normal distribution for this kind of problem
is that you can change the mean and sd to the values you like. Note that for
some of the random number functions in -help random_number_functions-, the
mean and variance are functions of each other. In the case of the poisson,
they are identical, making it harder to make them diverge in the way
Nikolaos wants them to....
HTH
Martin
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Nikolaos Pandis" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, May 24, 2009 9:15 AM
Subject: st: dataset generation
Hi,
I would like to ask for help in the following:
I would like to generate a small dataset with 2 columns:
column 1: observations 20, mean= 15, sd= 4
column 2: observations 20, mean=18, sd=6
How would I do that?
Many thanks in advance.
Nick
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