Simulation of frequency distributions

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Simulation of frequency distributions

Clive Downs
Hello Listers

Any help would be appreciated on the following:

I'd like to generate a series of datasets with the following features:

1- each dataset has the same specified percentage of cases that exceed a
given value

2- each dataset has a different distribution.


The point is to demonstrate that though two samples may be different when
characterised by the proportion reaching a criterion, they may show
considerable overlap in their distributions (and possibly vice-versa, if
you see what I mean).

I think there must be some way of using SPSS to do this.

Thanks,

Clive.

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