[R] simulate a null expectation

[Moshe Olshansky]

Hi Ryan,

I think that the only function you need is the one
which generates random variable. The simplest one is
to generate a uniform (0,1) variable U and then do not
move if U < 0.25, move to the first nearest point if
0.25 <= U < 0.5, move to the second nearest point if
).5 <= U < 0.75 and move to the third nearest point if
U >= 0.75.
To make things work faster you may wish to prepare for
which of your points the indexes of the 3 nearest
points (i.e. if you have N points you prepare an Nx3
matrix of indexes).

Regards,

Moshe.

--- Ryan Briscoe Runquist <rdbriscoe at ucdavis.edu>
wrote:

> 
> Hello,
> 
> I am trying to write a simulation to generate a null
> hypothesis so that I
> can test my data.  Essentially we started out with a
> grid of points and I
> have a symmetrical matrix of the distance between
> all of these points.  I
> then want to simulate random movement.  So I want to
> be able to start at a
> point, search through the matrix for the three
> closest points and with
> equal probability move to one of them or stay at the
> same place and then
> record the distance moved as well as the relative
> elevation (a vector of
> data that I also have) and then starting at that
> grid-point repeat the
> process a number of times.  Does anyone know of a
> function that could help
> me with this?
> 
> Thanks,
> Ryan
> 
>  
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Ryan D. Briscoe Runquist
> Population Biology Graduate Group
> University of California, Davis
> rdbriscoe at ucdavis.edu
> 
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