GENTRUN: Stata module to generate truncated normal variate

Hung-Jen Wang ()

Statistical Software Components from Boston College Department of Economics

Abstract: gentrun generates random draws from a truncated standard normal distribution. It allows one-sided and two-sided truncations of the distribution. Random draws from a non-truncated standard normal distribution are also permissible.

Language: Stata
Requires: Stata version 6.0
Keywords: distribution function; truncated distribution; normal distribution (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1999-12-06
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