Abstract
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)] is Y =a +bX +cX2 +dX3. Analytic and empirical validation of the method is demonstrated. © 1978 Psychometric Society.
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Fleishman, A. I. (1978). A method for simulating non-normal distributions. Psychometrika, 43(4), 521–532. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02293811
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