Hi everyone,

I am a new user to STATA, and after reading the manuals and information online, I am still not clear on how to get the normal posterior distribution using the Bayesian analysis function.

I have a normal prior and likelihood distribution with known mean and std. I wish to compute the same parameters (mean and std) for the posterior distribution. Under the STATA menu-- Statistics--Bayesian Analysis--General estimation and regression--Syntex---Univeriate Distribution, However, I can not find a normal distribution shown from the drop list.

My question is, is there a way for me to add-in a normal distribution into the likelihood drop list? Or is my above working procedures not right? Please let me know if there is another way to perform posterior distributions and correct me if my understanding is wrong.

Thanks alot!