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The Gamma distribution [http://www.aiaccess.net/English/Glossaries/GlosMod/e_gm_gamma_distri.htm: may be produced by summing exponential distributions.] There are two parameters, n and $$\lambda$$. n is the number of summed exponentials and $$\lambda$$ is the exponential rate. When $$\lambda$$ is very small compared to n a negative skewed version of the gamma distribution results with no upper limit. The Weibull distribution is negatively skewed and may be generated [http://www.taygeta.com/random/weibull.xml using random variables which are uniform on the interval [0,1]]
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The below produces two exponential random variables (n=2) with a very small $$\lambda$$ (=1/10000) in SPSS and sums them. One resulting simulated data set produced using this macro had a skew of -1.03. The below produces an open ended negatively skewed weibull distribution with parameters, 2 and 20. It has a median of

$$
2 text^{-0.05}((ln(2)text^{0.05}) = approx. 0.95.
$$
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define !gamma ( !pos !tokens(1)
                /!pos !tokens(1)).
!do !i=!1 !to !2 !by 1.
compute !concat(a,!i)=-(10000)*ln(rv.uniform(0,1)*10000).
!doend.
!enddefine.

!gamma 1 2.
exe.

compute sum=-(a1+a2).
compute wrv= (-(1/2)*(ln(1-rv.uniform(0,1))))**(0.05).

How do I produce random variables which follow a negatively skewed distribution?

Most distributions such as the exponential and log-Normal distributions are positively skewed with the mode of the distribution occurring for lower values.

The Weibull distribution is negatively skewed and may be generated [http://www.taygeta.com/random/weibull.xml using random variables which are uniform on the interval [0,1]]

The below produces an open ended negatively skewed weibull distribution with parameters, 2 and 20. It has a median of

$$ 2 text{-0.05}((ln(2)text{0.05}) = approx. 0.95. $$

compute wrv= (-(1/2)*(ln(1-rv.uniform(0,1))))**(0.05).
exe.

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