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Re: st: Is there a better way of allocating individuals into different categories based on the probability of an event?
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Gwinyai Masukume <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Is there a better way of allocating individuals into different categories based on the probability of an event?
Date
Mon, 25 Mar 2013 13:20:08 +0200
Many thanks.
Kind regards,
Gwinyai
On 3/25/13, Maarten Buis <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 4:16 AM, Gwinyai Masukume wrote:
>> Is there a better way of executing the code below which assigns
>> individuals into the Non-smoker and Smoker categories based on the
>> probability of smoking in pregnancy? <snip> Assuming 84% of
>> women do not smoke during pregnancy
>
> I would rewrite the lines
>
>> gen smoker1=int(1+(50000-1)*runiform())
>> gen smoker=0 if smoker1 < 42000
>> replace smoker=1 if smoker1 >= 42000
>
> like this:
>
> gen byte smoker = runiform() < .16
>
> For more see:
> M.L. Buis (2007), "Stata tip 48: Discrete uses for uniform()", The
> Stata Journal, 7(3), pp. 434-435.
> <http://www.stata-journal.com/article.html?article=pr0032>
>
> -- Maarten
>
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