A Computer Program to Generate Sample Correlation and Covariance Matrices

1 April 1975

journal article
research article
Published by SAGE Publications in Educational and Psychological Measurement

Vol. 35 (1) , 195-197
https://doi.org/10.1177/001316447503500128

Abstract

Given a population-covariance matrix, this program can generate any number of sample-covariance (or correlation) matrices, based on any sample sizes. If no population matrix is input, the program generates random correlation matrices.

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