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Re: st: drawnorm for discrete variables
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Tyler Frazier <[email protected]>
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Re: st: drawnorm for discrete variables
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Fri, 30 Apr 2010 15:28:37 +0200
thanks for the paper, it is very interesting and informative. I should
probably elaborate a bit on my question. How to synthetically
generate a population from a sample where the variables are
continuous, discrete and binary?
i was using the drawnorm with the corr, sds, and means to generate
cases, but as you pointed out this only works for continuous
variables. how to synthetically generate for both?
thanks, Ty
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 1:52 PM, Maarten buis <[email protected]> wrote:
> --- On Fri, 30/4/10, Tyler Frazier wrote:
>> Whats the best way to drawnorm for discrete variables in stata -- for
>> example ethnicity, education, religion, occupation, etc...
>
> You can't use -drawnorm- for a discrete variable, -drawnorm- draws a
> sample from multivariate normal distribution, which is by definition
> continuous. You can consider: M.L. Buis (2007) "Stata tip 48: Discrete
> uses for uniform()" The Stata Journal, 7(3):434--435.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Maarten
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