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Re: st: How to generate a censored random variable
From
Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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"[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject
Re: st: How to generate a censored random variable
Date
Thu, 6 Feb 2014 17:34:05 +0000
Why not feed your random values to -min()- and -max()-?
Nick
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On 6 February 2014 17:28, Joao Ricardo F. Lima <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear Statalisters,
>
> How can I create a censored random variable (left=0 and right=2) in
> Stata, with mean=0 and sigma=sdpb1?
>
> I was using - gen erb= rnormal(0,sdpb1)- but the variable isn't
> censored. The mean is 0 and std error is sdpb1, but it's out of the
> range 0-2.
>
> In R, the code is:
>
> erb[n,]=rnorm.trunc(1, t.left = 0, t.right = medb[n], mean = 0, sigma = sdpb1)
>
> However, I would like to do in Stata.
>
> Thanks a lot,
>
>
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