[Air-L] SOS: want to randomly fill address field in a spreadsheet

[Peter Timusk]

Google a postcode or zip code file for the map area. Use the zip code or
postal code list as your index. Do the research to fill in other address
information you will need later. You should now have an excel file with one
row per address. You are now done step 1 in your request.

Then using Steven's help suggestion create a random variable in a column
beside the address info. Setting the random variable is what is known as
sampling in a sense. Say a random number between 0 and 1 and if greater
than 0.5 you select them if less you don't select them. You can filter your
address list on the value of the random variable and presto you have your
list of addresses randomly selected.

If you can't do this then hire a statistician. Read a book on sampling
methods.



On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 7:30 PM, Babiga Birregah <bbirregah at gmail.com>wrote:

> thanks but my concerns is that:
> 1) how to pick a list of postal addresses corresponding to a given area or
> city (from a map)
> 2) and then randomly choose some of them to fill my
> excel column of addresses
> regards
> Babiga
>
>
> 2014-04-29 1:26 GMT+02:00 Lovaas,Steven <Steven.Lovaas at colostate.edu>:
>
> > I would number another column in your address list and then run your
> > random-number generator against that.
> >
> > Steve Lovaas
> >
> > Sent from my iPhone
> >
> > > On Apr 28, 2014, at 5:11 PM, "Babiga Birregah" <bbirregah at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > Dear all
> > > I am wondering if anyone knows how to fill randomly a spreadsheet with
> a
> > > list of address picked from a given area or region or city?
> > > thanks for your help
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Babiga
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> Joint Research Unit in Sciences and Technologies for Risk Management
> Department of Operational Research, Applied Statistics and Simulation
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