make.data: Basic function for simulating bivariate data

In dustinfife/fifer: A Biostatisticians Toolbox for Various Activities, Including Plotting, Data Cleanup, and Data Analysis

Description

Basic function for simulating bivariate data

Usage

make.data(
  cor = NULL,
  means,
  sds,
  n,
  names = c("X", "Y"),
  groups = c("A", "B"),
  digits = 0,
  cap = NULL
)

Arguments

cor	The correlation coefficient between the Y and X
means	A vector of length two that indicates the mean of Y and X, respectively
sds	A vector of length two that indicates the standard deviations of Y and X, respectively
n	Either a single value or a vector indicating the sample size of each group
names	The names of the Y and X variables, respectively
groups	The names of the groups
digits	The number of digits the numeric variables should be rounded to
cap	The min/max values for each of the variables, to be used for truncating scores, coded as a vector.

Details

This can model either numeric on numeric data or categorical on numeric.

Value

a simulated dataset

Author(s)

Dustin Fife

Examples

fake.data = make.data(cor=.6, means=c(50, 100), sds = c(15, 15), n=100, names=c("Exam Score", "IQ"))

fake.data = make.data(means = c(10, 50, 30), sds=c(4, 15, 9), n=c(20, 26, 55), names=c("Depression", "Condition"), groups=c("Control", "Medication + Therapy", "Therapy"))

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