one random shock

[Bena.m]

Hi there!
I have a time series of 50 years, and I want to have just one random shock during the entirety of these 50 years, is there any particular function that serves this purpose?
Thanks

[Administrator]

You could do a random uniform sample at time = initial time that is in the range 0-50. That would give you the year when to have the shock.

[tomfid]

So something like:

shock time = INITIAL( RANDOM UNIFORM(0,50,0) )
output value = initial value + STEP( shock size, shock time )

If the shock is brief, you could use PULSE instead.

[Bena.m]

Thank you so much for this suggestion!