Does your analysis depend critically on the specific values of the first
variable being present, or is it all about the joint normality and its
correlation structure? For the latter case, -su- your data, enter the mean
and variance of the first var in -drawnorm-, add mu_2 and sigma_2^2 and the
desired correlation, and you are done...
Martin Weiss
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Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2008 5:44 PM
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Subject: st: How to add a new variable with a specified correlation
structure
Dear Statalisters,
After checking in detail a number of sourcers (help files, manuals,
-corre2data- and -drawnorm-, among others) I could not find a solution to
my current problem.
I have an existent variable with n observations ~N(mu_1,sigma_1^2). Note
that I have all observations. In this respect, the objective is to
generate a second (artificial) variable also ~N(mu_2, sigma_2^2), but with
a specific correlation structure with the existent, non-artificial
variable.
The main difference from the procedures obtained with both -corre2data-
and -drawnorm- is that I have already an existing variable and want to
generate a second one based on the former.
Is that task either too easy (that I cannot see how do accomplish it) or
to complicated to perform using Stata?
Thank you for your time.
All the best,
Tiago
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