Help with Randomly Drawing 500 Observations from Distribution

[Jason Browen]

Dear all,

I am using Stata 16, on mac. I was wondering if I wanted to randomly draw 500 observations from a distribution such as poisson, gamma, beta, or binomial and create histograms of each how would I do so?

Thank you in advance for your help

Jason Browen

[Mike Lacy]

See -help random number functions-

clear
set obs 500
gen x1 = rpoisson(1.0)
gen x2 = rbeta(5,3)
gen x3 = rgamma(1,2)
gen x4 = rbinomial(5, 0.1)
hist x1
hist x2
hist x3
hist x4

[Jason Browen]

oh okay! Thank you so much Mike