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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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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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Keywords
- Marginal Distribution
- Bivariate Distribution
- Marginal Probability Distribution
- National Highway Traffic Safety
- Normal Gamma