Statistics/Basic: Difference between revisions

=={{header|Stata}}==

For a uniform distribution on [0,1], the mean is 1/2 and the variance is 1/12 (hence the standard deviation is 0.28867513). With a large sample, one can check the convergence to these values.

<lang stata>. clear all

. set obs 100000

number of observations (_N) was 0, now 100,000

. gen x=runiform()

. summarize x

Variable | Obs Mean Std. Dev. Min Max

-------------+---------------------------------------------------------

x | 100,000 .4991874 .2885253 1.18e-06 .9999939</lang>