Re: [R] Generating an autocorrelated binary variable

2012-10-02 Thread Simon Zehnder
Thank you very much for your answer Rolf. It helped. I try to simulate a trade indicator model from market microstructure, where the 1 or -1 indicate a buyer or seller initiated trade respectively. I use a Gaussian copula for simulation, so I can put in some correlation if I want to. So I gene

Re: [R] Generating an autocorrelated binary variable

2012-09-27 Thread Rolf Turner
I have no idea what your code is doing, nor why you want correlated binary variables. Correlation makes little or no sense in the context of binary random variables --- or more generally in the context of discrete random variables. Be that as it may, it is an easy calculation to show that if

[R] Generating an autocorrelated binary variable

2012-09-27 Thread Simon Zehnder
Hi R-fellows, I am trying to simulate a multivariate correlated sample via the Gaussian copula method. One variable is a binary variable, that should be autocorrelated. The autocorrelation should be rho = 0.2. Furthermore, the overall probability to get either outcome of the binary variable sho