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February 1978
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Psychometrika
A method of introducing a controlled degree of skew and kurtosis for Monte Carlo studies was derived. The form of such a transformation on normal deviates [X N(0, 1)] isY =a +bX +cX 2 +dX 3. Analytic and empirical validation of the method is demonstrated.
... In the Monte Carlo simulation, the SAS 9.00 computer program was used to obtain different distributions. In this process, Fleishman's (1978) power function was applied. The RANNOR procedure of SAS was used to generate population distributions. ...
February 1978
Psychometrika
