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From | Maarten buis <maartenbuis@yahoo.co.uk> |
To | statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu |
Subject | Re: st: Random draws from multivariate normal not centered at the mean |
Date | Tue, 15 Feb 2011 08:33:08 +0000 (GMT) |
--- On Tue, 15/2/11, Mauro Caselli wrote: > Unfortunately, that doesn't quite do the job. The means() > option tells the means of the distribution you draw from, > which in my previous example were 4 and 5. But is it > possible to draw from that distribution with mean 4 and 5 > a set of numbers that are not centered around those means? There are multiple measures of central tendency --- mean, median, mode --- but in a symetric uni-modal distribution like the normal/Gaussian distribution they are all the same. So what you ask is impossible. -- Maarten -------------------------- Maarten L. Buis Institut fuer Soziologie Universitaet Tuebingen Wilhelmstrasse 36 72074 Tuebingen Germany http://www.maartenbuis.nl -------------------------- * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/