rweibullcor: Generate a vector from a Weibull distribution correlated with...

In jknowles/datasynthR: Generate synthetic data with known properties, on demand.

Description

Allow user to draw from a Weibull distribution correlated with a user specified vector

Usage

rweibullcor(x, rho, na.rm = FALSE)

Arguments

x	variable to draw from
rho	correlation coefficient between x and result of function
na.rm	a logical indicating whether to fit the distribution excluding missing values or to fail on missing values

Details

Rough estimate

Value

a vector of the same length as x drawn from a normal distribution correlated with x at the level of rho

Author(s)

Jared E. Knowles

Examples

x <- rnorm(1000)
y <- rweibullcor(x, 0.2)
cor(x,y) # very close to 0.2
mean(y) 
sd(y)  

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