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Re: st: Setting same seed, getting different random numbers.
From
Richard Gates <[email protected]>
To
[email protected]
Subject
Re: st: Setting same seed, getting different random numbers.
Date
Fri, 02 Dec 2011 07:21:30 -0600
Patrick wrote:
>
> I encountered a strange problem. I tried running the same code on two
> different versions of Stata - one Stata/SE 12.0 on a server, and one
> Stata/SE 11.2 on my own computer. Both generate normal random numbers
> in mata with the same seed. But after a while the random numbers they
> generate differ! The code is as follows
>
> set seed 2
> mata
> f = rnormal(1000000,1,0,1)
>
> On the two machines, f[1,1] = .7005116833. But one one f[1000000,1] =
> -.5182349644, and on the other it is .7083750352.
>
> This strikes me as bizarre and impedes replication of my code across
> computers. Any ideas as to what's going on here?
>
We have been able to reproduce this issue. We are looking into the cause, and
we will report back to statalist when we have more information.
Richard Gates
[email protected]
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