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st: sequence of random values is repeated as I re-run code
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"Prado De Castro Alfaiate, Jorge" <[email protected]>
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st: sequence of random values is repeated as I re-run code
Date
Fri, 4 Feb 2011 12:07:01 +0000
Dear statalisters,
I still could not understand why, but I found out that the same sequence of random values is created when I re-run my code.
Each time a random value is created Stata is supposed to get that random number by using a complicated function of time and date (with high precision), leading to a near-random number, right?
But then I do not understand how the same random numbers may come out again...
Anyone knows why this might be happening?
Best,
Jorge
Jorge Prado de Castro Alfaiate
PhD student,
Department of Economics,
University of Essex
email: [email protected]
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