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Re: st: Drawing from a known, non-regular, discrete distribution
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Scott Merryman <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Drawing from a known, non-regular, discrete distribution
Date
Mon, 17 Feb 2014 20:50:32 -0600
http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2012-08/msg00256.html
and the links within.
Scott
On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 9:15 PM, Lulu Zeng <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear Statalist,
>
> I am seeking help with taking draws from a known, non-regular (not
> normal or lognormal etc), discrete distribution.
>
> For example, taking draws from a distribution like the one below.
> However, in my case I have 1,200 points instead of the 4 points given
> in the example.
>
> Draw value Probability
>
> 0.5 0.15
>
> 0.6 0.30
>
> 0.2 0.25
>
> 0.9 0.30
>
> The "draw value" is the value to be drawn, "probability" is the chance
> each value be drawn, so it adds up to 1.
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