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| From | Nick Cox <n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk> |
| To | "'statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu'" <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu> |
| Subject | st: RE: Generation of three uniform random variables that sum to one |
| Date | Thu, 21 Oct 2010 14:56:18 +0100 |
foreach v in a b c {
gen `v' = runiform()
}
gen total = a + b + c
foreach v in a b c {
replace `v' = `v' / total
}
Nick
n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk
Fabien Bertho
I would like to generate three uniform random variables. And, the sum of these three variables equals to one.
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