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Re: st: Sample: drawing the same "random" sample
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Richard Goldstein <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Sample: drawing the same "random" sample
Date
Tue, 12 Apr 2011 14:18:20 -0400
Stata has a very good pseudo-random-number generator, but it uses a
built-in seed and thus will always exhibit the behavior you noticed
for more on this, start with -help seed-
Rich
On 4/12/11 2:02 PM, Laurie Molina wrote:
> Hi all,
> I hope you can help me with the following questions:
> I am running random samples in stata 9 using the command sample.
> If i close the program, open the database again and then run the
> sample again, the "random" sample is the same as the first time i gave
> stata the instruction.
> Is it really a random sample? Is it ok to use it to make inference in
> to the population? What is the algorith used to draw the sample?
> Thank you very much in advance, as always!
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