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RE: st: AW: RE: RE: RE: how to choose the # for --set seed #--
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"Lachenbruch, Peter" <[email protected]>
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RE: st: AW: RE: RE: RE: how to choose the # for --set seed #--
Date
Fri, 5 Mar 2010 16:21:11 -0800
Well, maybe we could use the absolute value...
For me, the date would be more negative
Tony
Peter A. Lachenbruch
Department of Public Health
Oregon State University
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-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Martin Weiss
Sent: Friday, March 05, 2010 10:27 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: st: AW: RE: RE: RE: how to choose the # for --set seed #--
<>
Hmmm, can you feed a negative number to -set seed-, Tony?
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di `=date("21 Jan 1952", "DMY")'
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If this is true, then Nick was born "below" the Stata reference line
1/1/1960...
HTH
Martin
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Austin Nichols
Sent: Freitag, 5. März 2010 19:21
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: st: AW: RE: RE: RE: how to choose the # for --set seed #--
Martin Weiss <[email protected]>:
But see
http://www.stata-journal.com/sjpdf.html?articlenum=pr0006
(p.317) for a more plausible candidate, and note that Jan 21
re-appears elsewhere, e.g.
http://www.stata-journal.com/sjpdf.html?articlenum=dm0018
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 1:10 PM, Austin Nichols <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Martin Weiss <[email protected]>:
> If only because it is contradicted by
> http://www.stata-journal.com/sjpdf.html?articlenum=st0116
> p.575:
> "Why anyone would want other people to be even a day older than they
> really are is a mystery to me in middle age, but the effect appears
> genuine."
>
> On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 12:39 PM, Martin Weiss <[email protected]>
wrote:
>> "March 2006"
(http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2006-03/msg00574.html)
>> can probably be safely discarded?
>
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