How to Write codes to Draw a Sample Mean from Uniform distribution with Sample Size of 500

[Jason Browen]

Dear all,


I am using Stata 16, on mac. I need help writing codes to draw a sample mean from a uniform distribution with sample size of 500

Thank you in advance for your help


Jason Browen

[Clyde Schechter]

What do you mean by this? You can't "draw" a sample mean. You can draw a sample from a uniform distribution and then calculate its mean. If that's what you want:

set seed 1234 // OR YOUR PREFERRED RANDOM NUMBER SEED
set obs 500
gen x = runiform()
sum

Note: Assumes that by "uniform distribution" you mean the uniform distribution from 0 to 1. If you have different upper and lower limits, use the runiform(lb, ub) function, specifying your lower and upper bounds. See -help runiform()-.

[Jason Browen]

Thank you!