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help for cnormp                                       Austin Nichols (Oct 2009)
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Program to calculate parameters for creating a censored normal random variable 
> with specified mean and variance

        cnormp mean sd [, censpoint(real) ]

Description

    cnormp calculates the mean and standard deviation of the underlying
    uncensored normal distribution that when left censored at censpoint will
    have the specified mean and sd.  The default value for censpoint when
    unspecified is zero.


Examples

    drawnorm x, mean(20) sd(20) n(1000) clear
    cnormp 20 20
    forv i=1/9 {
    g y`i'=max(0,rnormal(r(m),r(s)))
    }
    su
    drawnorm x, mean(20) sd(20) n(1000) clear
    cnormp 20 20, c(10)
    forv i=1/9 {
    g y`i'=max(10,rnormal(r(m),r(s)))
    }
    su

Author

    Austin Nichols
    <austinnichols@gmail.com>
    Urban Institute

Also see

    Online: help for functions.