questionnaire_gen_polychoric: Generation of ordinal and continuous variables
In lsasim: Functions to Facilitate the Simulation of Large Scale Assessment Data

questionnaire_gen_polychoric

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Generation of ordinal and continuous variables

Creates a data frame of discrete and continuous variables based on a latent correlation matrix and marginal proportions.

questionnaire_gen_polychoric(n_obs, cat_prop, cor_matrix, c_mean, c_sd, theta)

`n_obs`	number of observations to generate.
`cat_prop`	list of cumulative proportions for each item.
`cor_matrix`	latent correlation matrix.
`c_mean`	is a vector of population means for each continuous variable.
`c_sd`	is a vector of population standard deviations for each continuous variable.
`theta`	if `TRUE` will label the first continuous variable 'theta'.