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Re: st: Generate unique random numbers
From
Stas Kolenikov <[email protected]>
To
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Subject
Re: st: Generate unique random numbers
Date
Wed, 19 Sep 2012 22:06:01 -0400
clear
set obs 90000
gen long id = _n + 9999
sample 13000, count
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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