Simulating correlated multivariate nonnormal distributions: Extending the fleishman power method

Psychometrika

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 25-35

  Headrick, Todd C ^b   Sawilowsky, Shlomo S ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Correlated data; Nonnormality; Pseudo random numbers; Simulations

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033095630     PISSN: 00333123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02294317     Document Type: Article

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