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Re: st: How to generate a censored random variable
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"Joao Ricardo F. Lima" <[email protected]>
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Re: st: How to generate a censored random variable
Date
Thu, 6 Feb 2014 15:47:46 -0200
Nick,
sorry. Can you explain better?
I saw the -help f_rnormal- and the options are -rnormal()-,
-rnormal(m)- and -rnormal(m,s)- and don't know how can I change the
range -min()- and -max()- of this function.
Thanks again,
2014-02-06 Nick Cox <[email protected]>:
> Why not feed your random values to -min()- and -max()-?
> Nick
> [email protected]
>
>
> 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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