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Re: st: RES: generating a variable with pre-specified correlations with other two (given) variables


From   Tirthankar Chakravarty <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: RES: generating a variable with pre-specified correlations with other two (given) variables
Date   Wed, 31 Aug 2011 05:00:29 -0700

This question has appeared a few times before - in that you want to
create a variable with a pattern of correlation with _existing_
variables, which -corr2data- does not do. In an example where means
are normalised to zero, this can be had by solving a system of linear
equations in appropriate expectations.

Suppose you generate a variable as

Z = a*X+ b*Y ---(0)

where a, and b are constants to be determined. Then you can derive the
following identities under the zero mean assumption:

Cov(Z, X) = a*Var(X) + b*Cov(X, Y)  ---(1)
Cov(Z, Y) = b*Var(Y) + a*Cov(X, Y)  ---(2)

Here you know everything (you set Cov(Z, X) and Cov(Z, Y)), and this
is a system of two equations in two unknowns, a and b. Solve them and
generate your variables as in equation (0).

So for example, if I have Cov(X, Y) = .6, and Var(X)=Var(Y)=1, then a
=0.15625 , b=0.40625.
/************************************/
mat mCov = (1, .6\ .6, 1)
// generate x and y
corr2data x y, cstorage(full) cov(mCov) n(100000) clear
// generate z based on current sample of x and y
g z = .15625*x+.40625*y
corr, covariance
/************************************/

All these calculations are assuming zero means - more tedious algebra
will allow you to generalise.

T

On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 3:53 AM, Henrique Neder <[email protected]> wrote:
> Try corr2data:
>
> matrix C = (1,0,.80,-.80\0,1,0,0\.80,0,1,-.80\-.80,0,-.80,1)
> corr2data hsperc corzer1 corpos1 corneg1, n(4137) corr(C)
>
> Henrique Neder
>
>
> -----Mensagem original-----
> De: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] Em nome de fjc
> Enviada em: terça-feira, 30 de agosto de 2011 23:00
> Para: [email protected]
> Assunto: st: generating a variable with pre-specified correlations with
> other two (given) variables
>
> Dear Statalisters:
>
> I have a dataset with two variables, x and y.
>
> I would like to generate a new artificial variable, z, with
> pre-specified correlations with x and y (no particular distribution
> required).
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Best,
>
> Francisco.
>
> P.D. I'm using Stata 11 (on Windows XP)
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Tirthankar Chakravarty
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