Re: st: simulating datasets with certain characteristics

[Richard Williams <Richard.A.Williams.5@ND.edu>]

At 09:27 AM 4/25/2006, Jason Thompson wrote:
> Can anyone provide pointers on how to use Stata to simulate a 
> dataset with predetermined correlational structure? For instance, 
> say I wanted MEASURE1 to correlate with MEASURE2 at around r = .4?
pp. 8-10 of this handout ("Analyzing means, correlations and standard 
deviations in Stata") discuss this:

http://www.nd.edu/~rwilliam/stats1/OLS-Stata.pdf

This is often handy when you are trying to reproduce the results from 
a published paper.  But, you also have to understand the limitations 
of what you can and cannot do.

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