covsim: VITA, IG, PLSIM and VM Simulation for Given Covariance and Marginals

Random sampling from distributions with user-specified population covariance matrix. Marginal information may be fully specified, for which the package implements the VITA (VIne-To-Anything) algorithm Grønneberg and Foldnes (2017) <doi:10.1007/s11336-017-9569-6>. See also Grønneberg, Foldnes and Marcoulides (2022) <doi:10.18637/jss.v102.i03>. Alternatively, marginal skewness and kurtosis may be specified, for which the package implements the IG (independent generator), PLSIM (piecewise linear) and VM (Vale-Maurelli) algorithms, see Foldnes and Olsson (2016) <doi:10.1080/00273171.2015.1133274>, Foldnes and Grønneberg (2021) <doi:10.1080/10705511.2021.1949323> and Vale and Maurelli (1983) <doi:10.1007/BF02293687>, respectively.

Package details

AuthorNjaal Foldnes [aut, cre], Steffen Grønneberg [aut]
MaintainerNjaal Foldnes <njal.foldnes@gmail.com>
LicenseGPL (>= 2)
Version1.2.0
Package repositoryView on CRAN
Installation Install the latest version of this package by entering the following in R:
install.packages("covsim")

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covsim documentation built on Oct. 29, 2026, 5:06 p.m.