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Re: st: generating random, not pseudo-random numbers
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Maarten Buis <[email protected]>
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Re: st: generating random, not pseudo-random numbers
Date
Sat, 10 Nov 2012 14:21:44 +0100
On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 6:16 PM, Pradipto Banerjee wrote:
> I am using Stata 9.2 and it appears that I don't have the runiform() function. The uniform() function is pseudo-random numbers and so when I run a code say N times, the output is the same every time. How can I generate random numbers in Stata 9.2 ?
-runiform()- would not solve that problem either, even if you could
use it in Stata 9; computers can only execute deterministic
instructions, so they can only produce pseudo-random numbers. On the
Stata blog <http://blog.stata.com/> there are a couple of posts by
Bill Gould on random numbers that might help you get an idea of the
details behind the pseudo-random number generators in Stata.
-- Maarten
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