A FORTRAN 77 program for generating sample correlation matrices from a given population corTrelation matrix is described. Considerable savings in computing time are achieved by obtaining the random correlation matrices directly, rather than generating random scores from a multivariate normal distribution and computing the correlation coefficients in the usual manner.
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