Specifically, I want to generate a multilevel data where I have a treatment and a control group with the following conditions: a) two levels of clusters (20 and 40 groups) b) two levels of sample size (10 for small sample and 20 for medium-sized sample) c) for each sample size, 1/2 is assigned to treatment and 1/2 is to control Given these, I want to generate data from a nonnormal distribution (chi-square dist with df=1) and a heteroscedastic variance where treatment to control variance ratio is 8:1. From there I want to assess how nonnormality and heteroscedasticity affects the power and type I error of a statistical test. Thanks so much, PG! Let me know if you need more details.
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