mvtBinaryEP-package       package:mvtBinaryEP       R Documentation

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_D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n:

     Uses the algorithm of Emrich and Piedmonte (1991) to generate
     correlated binary data for a given correlation matrix

_D_e_t_a_i_l_s:


       Package:  mvtBinaryEP
       Type:     Package
       Version:  1.0
       Date:     2009-02-16
       License:  GPL(>=2)

     The most important function is 'ep'.  Other functions include
     'ranMVN', 'ranMVN2', and 'ranMvnXch'.  These are used in the 'ep'
     function to generate correlated binary responses. The user may use
     these functions if multivariate normal data is desired. We note
     that the 'mvtnorm' package also avails the user of functions to
     generate multivariate data which may be more efficient than our
     mutivariate normal functions.

_A_u_t_h_o_r(_s):

     These routines were written by Dr. Bahjat Qaqish in SAS and
     translated to R by Kunthel By.  Questions may be relayed to
     <kby@bios.unc.edu>

_R_e_f_e_r_e_n_c_e_s:

     Emrich, L.J. and Piedmonte, M.R., A method for generating
     high-dimensional multivariate binary variates, The American
     Statistician, 45:302-304, 1991.

