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Re: st: simulating datasets with certain characteristics


From   Richard Williams <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: simulating datasets with certain characteristics
Date   Tue, 25 Apr 2006 11:07:44 -0500

At 09:27 AM 4/25/2006, Jason Thompson wrote:
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?
pp. 8-10 of this handout ("Analyzing means, correlations and standard deviations in Stata") discuss this:

http://www.nd.edu/~rwilliam/stats1/OLS-Stata.pdf

This is often handy when you are trying to reproduce the results from a published paper. But, you also have to understand the limitations of what you can and cannot do.

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