Re: [Gretl-users] Gretl-users Digest, Vol 91, Issue 2

gretl-users-request(a)lists.wfu.edu ha scritto: Send Gretl-users mailing list submissions to gretl-users(a)lists.wfu.edu To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.wfu.edu/mailman/listinfo/gretl-users or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to gretl-users-request(a)lists.wfu.edu You can reach the person managing the list at gretl-users-owner(a)lists.wfu.edu When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Gretl-users digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: Generate Discrete Uniform with negative bounds (Alecos Papadopoulos) 2. Re: Generate Discrete Uniform with negative bounds (Annaert Jan) 3. Re: Generate Discrete Uniform with negative bounds (Allin Cottrell) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2014 06:31:41 +0300 From: Alecos Papadopoulos <papadopalex(a)aueb.gr&gt; Subject: Re: [Gretl-users] Generate Discrete Uniform with negative bounds To: gretl-users(a)lists.wfu.edu Message-ID: <53E1A19D.3030402(a)aueb.gr&gt; Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-7; format=flowed Good afternoon. I tried to generate discrete uniform random variables using randgen, but it appears that the function cannot take negative values as bounds for the distribution (if both minimum and maximum are positive, then everything works fine. If either one or both bounds are negative numbers, it goes berserk). The script is nulldata 100 genr scalar lb=-5 genr scalar ub=1 genr series Z1 = randgen(i,lb,ub) and the summary statistics are Summary statistics, using the observations 1 - 100 for the variable 'Z1' (100 valid observations) Mean 2.7488e+009 Median 4.2950e+009 Minimum 0.00000 Maximum 4.2950e+009 Standard deviation allo 2.0720e+009 C.V. 0.75378 Skewness -0.58333 Ex. kurtosis -1.6597 5% percentile 0.00000 95% percentile 4.2950e+009 Interquartile range 4.2950e+009 Missing obs. 0 -- gretl-users-request(a)lists.wfu.edu ha scritto: Send Gretl-users mailing list submissions to gretl-users(a)lists.wfu.edu To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.wfu.edu/mailman/listinfo/gretl-users or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to gretl-users-request(a)lists.wfu.edu You can reach the person managing the list at gretl-users-owner(a)lists.wfu.edu When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Gretl-users digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: Generate Discrete Uniform with negative bounds (Alecos Papadopoulos) 2. Re: Generate Discrete Uniform with negative bounds (Annaert Jan) 3. Re: Generate Discrete Uniform with negative bounds (Allin Cottrell) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2014 06:31:41 +0300 From: Alecos Papadopoulos <papadopalex(a)aueb.gr&gt; Subject: Re: [Gretl-users] Generate Discrete Uniform with negative bounds To: gretl-users(a)lists.wfu.edu Message-ID: <53E1A19D.3030402(a)aueb.gr&gt; Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-7; format=flowed Good afternoon. I tried to generate discrete uniform random variables using randgen, but it appears that the function cannot take negative values as bounds for the distribution (if both minimum and maximum are positive, then everything works fine. If either one or both bounds are negative numbers, it goes berserk). The script is nulldata 100 genr scalar lb=-5 genr scalar ub=1 genr series Z1 = randgen(i,lb,ub) and the summary statistics are Summary statistics, using the observations 1 - 100 for the variable 'Z1' (100 valid observations) Mean 2.7488e+009 Median 4.2950e+009 Minimum 0.00000 Maximum 4.2950e+009 Standard deviation 2.0720e+009 C.V. 0.75378 Skewness -0.58333 Ex. kurtosis -1.6597 5% percentile 0.00000 95% percentile 4.2950e+009 Interquartile range 4.2950e+009 Missing obs. 0 --