Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction to simulation -- Simulating data from common univariate distributions -- Preliminary and background information -- Simulating data to estimate sampling distributions -- Using simulation to evaluate statistical techniques -- Strategies for efficient and effective simulation -- Advanced simulation of univariate data -- Simulating data from basic multivariate distributions -- Advanced simulation of multivariate data -- Building correlation and covariance matrices -- Simulating data for basic regression models -- Simulating data for advanced regression models -- Simulating data from times series models -- Simulating data from spatial models -- Resampling and bootstrap methods -- Moment matching and the moment-ratio diagram. Annotation