Param.fleishman: Calculates the Fleishman coefficients

In PoisNonNor: Simultaneous Generation of Count and Continuous Data

Description

This function calculates the four coefficients in the Fleishman system given skewness and kurtosis values.

Usage

Param.fleishman(rmat)

Arguments

rmat	a n2x2 matrix that includes skewness and kurtosis values for each continuous variable, where the first and second columns represent skewness and kurtosis, respectively.

Value

Returns a matrix of size n2x4 where rows and columns represent variables and coefficients, respectively.

References

Fleishman A.I. (1978). A method for simulating non-normal distributions. Psychometrika, 43(4), 521-532.

Examples

## Not run: 
rmat = matrix(c(-0.5486,-0.2103, 0.3386, 0.9035, 1.0283, 0.9272), byrow=TRUE, ncol=2)
Param.fleishman(rmat)

## End(Not run)

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