In this article, I discuss the methods for generating nonnegatively correlated binary random variates. I provide a new command, rbinary, with examples showing how the command can be used. Copyright 2015 by StataCorp LP.

Birnbaum and Saunders introduced in 1969 a two-parameter lifetime distribution which has been used quite successfully to model a wide variety of univariate positively skewed data. Diaz-Garcia and Leiva-Sanchez [8] proposed a generalized Birnbaum–Saunders distribution by using an elliptically...