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Nominal X in MONTECARLO

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Patrick Malone posted on Wednesday, April 11, 2012 - 6:05 am

I've been struggling with creating a nominal (5-category) X variable in a MONTECARLO simulation.

I did figure out I could generate dummy codes and manipulate them with a DEFINE in a second run to make them mutually exclusive, but I could not work out to make them so in the data generation step.

Any tips?

Thanks.

Linda K. Muthen posted on Wednesday, April 11, 2012 - 12:02 pm

You can generate a nominal dependent variable using the GENERATE option. There is no straightforward way to generate nominal independent variables.

Patrick Malone posted on Wednesday, April 11, 2012 - 12:10 pm

Thanks, Linda.