Re: st: Random number generation

["E. Paul Wileyto" <epw@mail.med.upenn.edu>]

For something Stata specific

search random number, all

or

help rnd

For more general information, a good book to use is:

Statistical Distributions, by Evans Hastings & Peacock, (2000) Wiley

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Lars Holstenkamp wrote:
> Dear all,
> is there somewhere a list of how to generate random numbers with 
> various distributions (esp. triangular, beta, pert; for use in Monte 
> Carlo simulations)?
> Regards,
> Lars
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> *   http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search
> *   http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq
> *   http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/

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