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Re: st: Random draws from multivariate normal not centered at the mean
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David Muller <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Random draws from multivariate normal not centered at the mean
Date
Tue, 15 Feb 2011 11:10:55 +1100
The -means()- option in -drawnorm- does what you require. It's
documented in -help drawnorm-.
Cheers,
David
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 10:34 AM, Mauro Caselli <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear Stata users,
>
> I have the following question:
> I have a multivariate normal distribution with two variables
> (therefore I have means and variances of both and the correlation
> coefficient). I want to draw psuedo-random draws from this
> distribution and I know that this can be done with the command
> drawnorm. However, I would like to have draws not centered at the mean
> of the population but rather at a different value of one of the two
> variables.
> So, if the means are 4 for x and 5 for y, for instance I would like to
> draw ten numbers that give an average of 3 for x and follow the
> multivariate normal to give the relative values of y. Is this possible
> with drawnorm? If not, can anyone point me in the right direction?
>
> Thank you very much.
>
> With best wishes,
>
> Mauro
>
>
>
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> School of Economics, Room 410
> Australian School of Business
> The University of New South Wales, NSW, 2052
> Australia
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