FleishmanIC: Functions to generate nonnormal distributed multivariate...

Description Usage Arguments Value Examples

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Description

The function are adapted from online support of the SAS system, URL: support.sas.com/publishing/authors/extras/65378_Appendix_D_Functions_for_Simulating_Data_by_Using_Fleishmans_Transformation.pdf FleishmanIC produce an initial guess of the Fleishman coefficients from given skewness and kurtosis. It is to use for Newton's algorithm. This guess is produced by a polynomial regression.

Usage

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FleishmanIC(skew, kurt)

Arguments

skew

desired skewness

kurt

desired kurtosis

Value

par vector with coefficients b,c,d

Examples

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out <- FleishmanIC(1,2)

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