Re: Generating datasets for simulation studies

Posted by Ryan on Feb 25, 2013; 12:31am
URL: http://spssx-discussion.165.s1.nabble.com/Generating-datasets-for-simulation-studies-tp5718220p5718231.html

It's a matter of generating data from a variance-covariance matrix which conforms to a particular SEM, with the bells and whistles you desire (e.g., skewed variables etc.). Consequently, I would say that virtually any of the major stats software packages should be capable of simulating such data.

 

Ryan

On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 1:56 AM, E. Bernardo <[hidden email]> wrote:

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?

Eins