[R] Latin Hypercube with condition sum = 1

Rainer M Krug r.m.krug at gmail.com
Mon Nov 24 09:31:53 CET 2008


On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 8:06 PM, Ben Bolker <bolker at ufl.edu> wrote:
>  In that case won't
>
> x2 <- (x-min(x))/(max(x)-min(x)) ## establishes criterion 1

That one is not needed, as the range is automatically between 0 and 1:
min(ws)
[1] 6.925322e-05
> max(ws)
[1] 0.9999284
so that is fine.
but when I do the normalization, i.e. the sum of each row has to be 1:

wss <- ws / rowSums(ws)

the min and max change to:
> min(wss)
[1] 0.0003943225
> max(wss)
[1] 0.4834845

But there is also the possibility, that one value ws[n,1] is larger
then one (or one), and the others are zero (or sum(ws[n,-1] ==
1-ws[n,1]), e.g.  (1,0,0,0,0,0,0).

In addition, I think that the resulting cube is not a Latin Hypercube any more.



> x3 <- x2/sum(x2)                 ## establishes criterion 2
>
>  work?  I haven't thought about this very carefully, but
> since transformation makes min(x)=0 and max(x)=1 (and therefore
> sum(x)>1 -- although it won't work if length(x)<2 or var(x)==0)
> transformation 2 will necessarily reduce the range and therefore
> not violate criterion 1 ... ?
>
>  Ben Bolker
>
>
> Rainer M Krug wrote:
>> On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 7:43 PM, Ben Bolker <bolker at ufl.edu> wrote:
>>> Rainer M Krug <r.m.krug <at> gmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> Hi
>>>>
>>>> I want to du a sensitivity analysis using Latin Hypercubes. But my
>>>> parameters have to fulfill two conditions:
>>>>
>>>> 1) ranging from 0 to 1
>>>> 2) have to sum up to 1
>>>>
>>>  Perhaps I'm missing something, but it seems that there's
>>> only one vector that satisfies these two conditions simultaneously,
>>> which is x={0,1} ... ???  (Actually, technically speaking
>>> you could have as many zeros as you wanted -- x = {0,0,0,1}
>>> would also work -- but I don't think that's going to help much.)
>>> If min(x)=0 and max(x)=1, then x must contain 0 and 1.  If x
>>> contains any other non-zero values, and no negative
>>> ones, then sum(x)>1 ...
>>
>> You are absolutely right - but when you look at the example, I want
>> that the FINAL latin hypercube sets sum up to one, and the values
>> RANGING from 0 to 1, i.e. (0.5, 0.5) would also satisfy the condition.
>>
>>>   You seem to have a problem either in your definitions,
>>> or in your communication of those definitions to us ...
>>
>> Probably both - but to try again:
>>
>> 1) values ranging between 0 and 1 (0 <= x <= 1)
>> 2) all elements in one set of the lLatin Hypercube should add to one.
>>
>> Assuming two dimensions, (1,0) & (0,1) & (0.3, 0.7) , ... would all
>> satisfy the condition 1 and 2;
>>
>> (0.8, 0.3) would satisfy 1, but not 2;
>> (-1, 2) would satisfy 2, but not 1
>>
>> Hope this clarifies my question,
>>
>> Rainer
>>
>>>  cheers
>>>   Ben Bolker
>>>
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>
>
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