st: simulating datasets with certain characteristics

From	Jason Thompson <[email protected]>
To	statalist <[email protected]>
Subject	st: simulating datasets with certain characteristics
Date	Tue, 25 Apr 2006 09:27:40 -0500

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?

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