Re: [Gretl-users] randgen question

On Tue, 17 Nov 2009, Talha Yalta wrote: > On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 4:12 PM, Allin Cottrell <cottrell(a)wfu.edu&gt; wrote: > > > > On Tue, 17 Nov 2009, Talha Yalta wrote: > > > >> I am trying to perpare a ML tutorial where there are T balls > >> in a bag with a ratio of P=0.75 black balls and there will be > >> 250 independent trials where 0<X<10 randomly chosen balls > >> from the bag will show Y blacks. > >> I create a new data set with 250 observations and create X > >> with genr X = floor(randgen(u,0,11) > >> After this, however, the command genr Y = randgen(b,0.75,X) > >> does not work. Any suggestions? > > > > Giving a series for the third argument is not supported. > I see but is it possible to do what I am trying to do in gretl? nulldata 250 X = floor(randgen(u,0,11)) series Y series tmp loop i=1..250  if X[i] = 0    Y[i] = 0  else    tmp = randgen(b,0.75,X[i])    Y[i] = tmp[1]  endif endloop Allin Cottrell _______________________________________________ Gretl-users mailing list Gretl-users(a)lists.wfu.edu http://lists.wfu.edu/mailman/listinfo/gretl-users