--- On Fri, 14/8/09, John Antonakis wrote:
> I know how to use corr2data to generate matrixes with know
> properties. However, what if one would like to generate
> binary data that correlates at a specific value with a
> continuous or other binary data? Is there a direct way to do
> this instead of generating continuous data and then
> dichotomizing it?
Some tricks for doing that are discussed in:
Maarten L. Buis (2007) Stata tip 48: Discrete uses for
uniform(). The Stata Journal 7(3):434-435.
You can find a pre-publication draft at:
http://home.fsw.vu.nl/m.buis/wp/discrete.html
Hope this helps,
Maarten
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Maarten L. Buis
Institut fuer Soziologie
Universitaet Tuebingen
Wilhelmstrasse 36
72074 Tuebingen
Germany
http://home.fsw.vu.nl/m.buis/
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