Re: [R] Simulation Questions

2011-05-02 Thread Andrew Robinson
Hi Shane, it sounds to me as though you have a fairly well-defined problem. You want to generate random numbers with a specific mean, variance, and correlation with another random varaible. I would reverse-enginerr the fuinctions for simple linear regression to get a result like y = beta_0 + be

[R] Simulation Questions

2011-04-30 Thread Shane Phillips
I have the following script for generating a dataset. It works like a champ except for a couple of things. 1. I need the variables "itbs" and "map" to be negatively correlated with the binomial variable "lunch" (around -0.21 and -0.24, respectively). The binomial variable "lunch" needs to