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Re: st: Randomly change a date in Stata
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Maarten Buis <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Randomly change a date in Stata
Date
Tue, 19 Jun 2012 13:55:00 +0200
On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 1:37 PM, Tim Evans wrote:
> If I use the following, I don't actually manage to re-create the same date:
>
> set seed 339487731
> gen date7 = datediag + ceil(11 * runiform()) - 6
> gen date8 = datediag + ceil(11 * runiform()) - 6
>
> The dates are different - do you know why this may be?
You will get the same dates when you precede the command with the same seed:
set seed 339487731
gen date7 = datediag + ceil(11 * runiform()) - 6
set seed 339487731
gen date8 = datediag + ceil(11 * runiform()) - 6
-- Maarten
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Maarten L. Buis
Institut fuer Soziologie
Universitaet Tuebingen
Wilhelmstrasse 36
72074 Tuebingen
Germany
http://www.maartenbuis.nl
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