Eric,
This isn't really a direct answer to your question, but an excellent source
for algoritms to generate various multivariate distributions is
"Multivariate Statistical Simulation" by Mark Johnson. The date is 1987 and
its a Wiley book. I've used this source to generate multivariate
distributions by writing code in SAS/IML. There isn't code in this book,
one has to write their own code in the language/package of one's choice.
If there is a software package that does this sort of thing, I'd be
interested as well- it could save me some time.
Chris Mecklin
>From: Eric Turkheimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Software for Problem Construction
>Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 12:09:18 -0400
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>Has anyone ever seen software designed to generate data for the
>construction of statistical problem sets? One might input a correlation
>matrix among a set of predictors, and amount of variance in Y to be
>explained, a pattern of means, etc. The program would then generate
>random data to fit the specified problem.
>
>I spend a lot of time in SAS doing this one problem at a time...
>Eric
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