Re: st: Generating simulated data with binary variables

[John Antonakis <john.antonakis@unil.ch>]

Hi Maarten:

Thanks; very useful to know and very helpful for what I will do.

Best,
J.

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On 14.08.2009 22:32, Maarten buis wrote:
> --- 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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