[R] Sampling from Bivariate Uniform Distribution

[Greg Snow]

The correlation will not be exactly 0, but will represent a draw from an independent population.

There may be something in the copulas package to allow for more independence (but that about exhausts my knowledge of that package).

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Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D.
Statistical Data Center
Intermountain Healthcare
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> When I wrap those values in to a matrix will it be still independent ?
> ( non
> zero correlation).
> 
> Can I do this for any multivariate distribution which has the
> univariate
> form?
> 
> Thank you for the response.
> 
> Haneef
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