How to generate random numbers in Stata
10 March 2016
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Overview
I describe how to generate random numbers and discuss some features added in Stata 14. In particular, Stata 14 includes a new default random-number generator (RNG) called the Mersenne Twister (Matsumoto and Nishimura 1998), a new function that generates random integers, the ability to generate random numbers from an interval, and several new functions that generate random variates from nonuniform distributions.
Random numbers from the uniform distribution
In the example below, we use runiform() to create Read more…