[R] Determining the correlation coefficient?

Liviu Andronic landronimirc at gmail.com
Mon Dec 14 14:51:27 CET 2009


Hello

On 12/14/09, Anja Mohorko <nekostrgano at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hello, I need your help! Probably the answer is quite easy, but still ...
>  How can I sample two (or more) vectors of data from a normal distribution so they are correlated with an exact value I select (for example pearson's r = .30)?
>

require(MASS)
Sigma <- matrix(c(10,3,3,2),2,2)
Sigma
mvrnorm(n=1000, rep(0, 2), Sigma)

Liviu




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