Generate a vector from a negative binomial distribution correlated with another distribution

Allow user to draw from a negative binomial distribution correlated with a user specified vector

Usage

rnegbinomcor(x, rho, scale = NULL, na.rm = FALSE)

x: variable to draw from
rho: correlation coefficient between x and result of function
scale: a scale factor for the negative binomial draws
na.rm: a logical indicating whether to fit the distribution excluding missing values or to fail on missing values

a vector of the same length as x drawn from a negative binomial distribution correlated with x at the level of rho

Rough estimate

Jared E. Knowles