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Bivar: A program for generating correlated random numbers
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Bivar: A program for generating correlated random numbers

  • Jeff Miller1 

Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers volume 30, pages 720–723 (1998)Cite this article

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This article describes Bivar, a program that generates random numbers from a wide variety of bivariate distributions. Numbers are written to an ASCII output file, from which they can be read as needed by programs simulating stochastic processes. The program runs under the DOS operating system on IBM-PC compatibles with a 386 or later processor, and it is free for educational and noncommercial use.

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  1. Department of Psychology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

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Correspondence to Jeff Miller.

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I thank Ellen Hertz of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, United States Department of Transportation, for suggesting the mixture structure, and Andrew Heathcote and two anonymous reviewers for helpful suggestions concerning this manuscript as well as the program and its documentation.

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Miller, J. Bivar: A program for generating correlated random numbers. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers 30, 720–723 (1998). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03209492

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  • Received: 25 April 1997

  • Accepted: 21 August 1997

  • Issue Date: December 1998

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03209492

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Keywords

  • Marginal Distribution
  • Bivariate Distribution
  • Marginal Probability Distribution
  • National Highway Traffic Safety
  • Normal Gamma
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