Creating Realistic Data Sets with Specified Properties via Simulation |
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| Authors: | Robert N Goldman John D McKenzie Jr |
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| Institution: | 1. Simmons College, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.;2. Babson College, Wellesley, Massachusetts, USA.e‐mail: goldman@simmons.edu 3. mckenzie@babson.edu |
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| Abstract: | We explain how to simulate both univariate and bivariate raw data sets having specified values for common summary statistics. The first example illustrates how to ‘construct’ a data set having prescribed values for the mean and the standard deviation – for a one‐sample t test with a specified outcome. The second shows how to create a bivariate data set with a specified correlation coefficient. |
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| Keywords: | Teaching Generating data Summarized data Raw data Minitab |
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