--- On Mon, 5/10/09, Dorothy Bridges wrote:
> I would like to create a random variable taking five
> different values
> whose distribution mirrors that of another variable.
> In other words,
> I have one variable whose distribution is, say:
>
> value %
> x1 40
> x2 10
> x3 30
> x4 5
> x5 15
>
> ... and I want to create another variable with the same
> values and distribution, but randomly assigned. Something
> like
> gen randomvar =
> mydist() instead of uniform().
See: Maarten L. Buis (2007) Stata tip 48: Discrete uses for
uniform() The Stata Journal Vol. 7 No. 3, pp. 434-435.
A pre-publication draft can be downloaded from:
http://www.maartenbuis.nl/publications/discrete.html
You can also buy a book full with 76 stata-tips:
http://www.stata.com/bookstore/tips2.html
Hope this helps,
Maarten
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