See ?mvrnorm in the MASS package. Best, Ista
On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 12:04 PM, John Sorkin <jsor...@grecc.umaryland.edu> wrote: > I need to define three vectors x, y, z (each of length 100) such that the > pair-wise correlations of the vectors have per-defined values r1 and r2. > More specifically I need to define x, y, and z so that: > > corr(x,y) = r1 > corr(y,z) = r2 > > Is there any easy way to accomplish this with R? > > Thank you, > John > John David Sorkin M.D., Ph.D. > Professor of Medicine > Chief, Biostatistics and Informatics > University of Maryland School of Medicine Division of Gerontology and > Geriatric Medicine > Baltimore VA Medical Center > 10 North Greene Street > GRECC (BT/18/GR) > Baltimore, MD 21201-1524 > (Phone) 410-605-7119 > (Fax) 410-605-7913 (Please call phone number above prior to faxing) > > Confidentiality Statement: > This email message, including any attachments, is for ...{{dropped:18}} ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.