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Re: st: Generate unique random numbers
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Fernando Rios Avila <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Generate unique random numbers
Date
Wed, 19 Sep 2012 21:27:25 -0400
If you have no issues with the distribution of the values, i think
this code will do what you want:
set obs 20000
gen r=int(runiform()*100000)
duplicates drop r, force
drop if r<10000
keep if _n<=13000
sum
Hope this helps
On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 9:18 PM, Anna Hemnes <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> We are trying to get stata to generate a set of unique 5 digit numbers,
> and just cant figure out the code. We need about 13000 of these numbers
> and can get a set of random digits but they duplicate. Does anyone know
> how we might fix this?
>
> Thank you
>
>
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