Generating datasets for simulation studies

Posted by E. Bernardo on Feb 24, 2013; 6:56am
URL: http://spssx-discussion.165.s1.nabble.com/Generating-datasets-for-simulation-studies-tp5718220.html

Dear SEM experts,

We want to generate thousands of datasets with varied sample sizes (50, 200, 500) from a structural equation model (say, model with one endogenous latent variable and two exogenous latent variables, multivariate normal and skewed variables, each latent variable with three items that used 7-point ordinal options).  

We will use the data sets for our simulation studies.  Can you please suggest a software that can generate such data sets?

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