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re: Re: st: defining a covariance matrix
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re: Re: st: defining a covariance matrix
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Thu, 2 May 2013 09:38:35 -0400
Thank you Austin and John!
I realized that neither -drawnorm- or -corr2data- allow the user to specify
both sd() and cov() at the same time, whereas R apparently does (the author
used R for his simulations). In any case, when specifying the covariance
matrix as you provided, the std devs turn out as planned...
Thanks again!
Ariel
Date: Wed, 1 May 2013 14:29:37 -0400
From: Austin Nichols <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: st: defining a covariance matrix
Ariel Linden, DrPH <[email protected]>:
Poorly written description IMHO, but perhaps like so?
matrix C = (2,1,-1\1,1,-.5\-1,-.5,1)
drawnorm X1 X2 X3, n(1000) cov(C) clear
corr X?, cov
On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 2:21 PM, Ariel Linden, DrPH
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I am trying to replicate some analyses from a paper, and I came across the
following sentence:
>
> "X1, X2, and X3 are multivariate normal with means zero, variances of (2,
1, 1) and covariances of (1,-1,-0.5) respectively."
>
> Can someone tell me how to define the covariance matrix as described
above? This rest is easy enough:
>
> *** code****
> matrix m = (0,0,0)
> matrix sd = (sqrt(2),1,1)
> matrix C = ?
> drawnorm X1 X2 X3, n(1000) means(m) sds(sd) cov(C)
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Ariel
>
>
>
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Date: Wed, 01 May 2013 22:32:19 +0200
From: John Antonakis <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: st: defining a covariance matrix
Hi Ariel:
Try:
matrix C = (2,1,-1\1,1,-.5\-1,-.5,1)
corr2data x1 x2 x3, cov(C) n(1000)
You can also do this with -ssd-, but only if you estimate the model with
- -sem-:
ssd init x1 x2 x3
ssd set obs 1000
ssd set cov 2 \ 1 1 \ -1 -.5 1
Best,
J.
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