Simulating Data with SAS

Chapter 8

Simulating Data from Basic Multivariate Distributions

Contents

8.1    Overview of Simulation from Multivariate Distributions

8.2    The Multinomial Distribution

8.3    Multivariate Normal Distributions

8.3.1    Simulating Multivariate Normal Data in SAS/IML Software

8.3.2    Simulating Multivariate Normal Data in SAS/STAT Software

8.4    Generating Data from Other Multivariate Distributions

8.5    Mixtures of Multivariate Distributions

8.5.1    The Multivariate Contaminated Normal Distribution

8.5.2    Mixtures of Multivariate Normal Distributions

8.6    Conditional Multivariate Normal Distributions

8.7    Methods for Generating Data from Multivariate Distributions

8.7.1    The Conditional Distribution Technique

8.7.2    The Transformation ...