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| From | Maarten Buis <maartenlbuis@gmail.com> |
| To | statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu |
| Subject | 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 -------------------------- 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/