Creating Realistic Data Sets with Specified Properties via Simulation


Authors: 
Robert N. Goldman, John D. McKenzie Jr.
Volume: 
31(1)
Pages: 
online
Year: 
2009
Publisher: 
Teaching Statistics
URL: 
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/121620302/PDFSTART
Abstract: 

We explain how to simulate both univariate and bivariate raw data sets having specified values for common summary statistics. The first example illustrates how to 'construct' a data set having prescribed values for the mean and the standard deviation - for a one-sample t test with a specified outcome. The second shows how to create a bivariate data set with a specified correlation coefficient.

The CAUSE Research Group is supported in part by a member initiative grant from the American Statistical Association’s Section on Statistics and Data Science Education

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