On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 08:47:04PM -0700, Brent Meeker wrote: > > So that would imply that when predicting states at some fixed finite time in > the > future there is a smallest, non-zero probability that is realizable. So if > our > prediction, using continuum variables as an approximation, indicates a > probability > lower than this value we should set it to zero?? > > Brent Meeker
That is one very common way of mapping continuum models to discrete variables. Another way is probabilitistic assignment, where a value of 0.3 has a 70% chance of being mapped to 0 and 30% chance of being mapped to 1. See my paper "Population models with Random Embryologies as a Paradigm for Evolution" Complexity International, 2 (1994). Of course these two possibilities do not exhaust the space! Cheers -- *PS: A number of people ask me about the attachment to my email, which is of type "application/pgp-signature". Don't worry, it is not a virus. It is an electronic signature, that may be used to verify this email came from me if you have PGP or GPG installed. Otherwise, you may safely ignore this attachment. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- A/Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Mathematics UNSW SYDNEY 2052 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Australia http://parallel.hpc.unsw.edu.au/rks International prefix +612, Interstate prefix 02 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
