Re: [R] Population simulation.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, can anyone tell me if R has any special function for simulating the structure of human populations? Something like the genetic algorithm? I need to simulate a sample of a population with a specific structure. Is there something on R that can help me? As others have pointed out, you need to give us some more details. There is an artile about simulation of ecological dynamics in last December's R News, which may be of some help: http://cran.r-project.org/doc/Rnews/Rnews_2003-3.pdf If you're simulating something like a coalescence process, then it might be easier to use some specialist software. In that case, googling with a few relevant terms might be the way to go. Bob -- Bob O'Hara Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics P.O. Box 68 (Gustaf Hällströmin katu 2b) FIN-00014 University of Helsinki Finland Telephone: +358-9-191 51479 Mobile: +358 50 599 0540 Fax: +358-9-191 51400 WWW: http://www.RNI.Helsinki.FI/~boh/ Journal of Negative Results - EEB: http://www.jnr-eeb.org __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
[R] Population simulation.
Hello, can anyone tell me if R has any special function for simulating the structure of human populations? Something like the genetic algorithm? I need to simulate a sample of a population with a specific structure. Is there something on R that can help me? Thanks to everyone. __ O email preferido dos portugueses agora com 100Mb de espaço e acesso gratuito à Internet http://www.portugalmail.pt/servicos/email/gold/ __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
Re: [R] Population simulation.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, can anyone tell me if R has any special function for simulating the structure of human populations? Something like the genetic algorithm? I need to simulate a sample of a population with a specific structure. Is there something on R that can help me? Please be more specific, what you want: What type of model or which state variables do you want to simulate? Differential equations, age stucture (Leslie matrix model) discrete event simulations of stochastic subsamples (individuals) ... BTW genetic algorithms are commonly used to solve optimization problems and (at least in most cases) not for population models. Thomas P. __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
