generating correlated random variables
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Hello
Though the subject might seem similar to other subjects available in this forum, it is indeed different. I am doing a Monte Carlo simulation. In each iteration, i have to consider the spatial variability of a parameter(e.g. C) along a curve. in fact, in each iteration the curve is divided to some segments and the random variables (C1,C2, C3, ...,C8) are assigned to each of these segments. Each of these C1, C2, ..,C7 have a lognormal distribution with the same parameters and there is only correlation between C7 and C8 with a correlation matrix like
rho = [ 1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0;
0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0;
0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0;
0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0;
0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0;
0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0;
0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0.2;
0,0,0,0,0,0,0.2,1]
How can i model such a process?
it is worthy to point that, there may be different numbers of random variables in other iterations of Monte carlo simulation (i.e. due to a different curve length) but they all have a lognormal distribution with the same parameters.
Any help/idea/recommendation is highly appreciated.
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Jeff Miller
2021년 5월 11일
Generate C1-C6 separately (independently) from whatever lognormal you want.
Then generate C7-C8 as a pair with the desired correlation. One easy way to do that is to first generate c7,c8 with mvnrnd and then form C7=exp(c7) and C8 = exp(c8). You just have to adjust the mu & sigma parameters of mvnrnd to get the desired distribution and correlation for C7 & C8,
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Jeff Miller
2021년 6월 6일
I am not familiar with that relationship/equation but it is fine if it gives you the correlation you want between C7 and C8.
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