[R] Latin Hyper cube with condition col1+ col2 < x

Rainer M Krug Rainer at krugs.de
Thu Oct 15 17:38:17 CEST 2015


Boris Steipe <boris.steipe at utoronto.ca> writes:

> Sorry - two typos coorected:
>
> If you need x[,"a"] + x[,"b"] equal to 1, then replace any non-zero initial value of x[,b] with 1-x[,a].
> But if you really need "less than" h, you'll need to specify what your
> desired distribution of h - (x[,"a"] + x[,"b"]) should look like.

I think I get your point. I am thinking of adding an additional variable
to the x Latin Hypercube which I will than use as x[,"a] + x[,"b"] and I
will use that one as the distribution.

I think that will work.

Thanks,

Rainer

>
>
> On Oct 15, 2015, at 9:52 AM, Boris Steipe <boris.steipe at utoronto.ca> wrote:
>
>> If you need h equal to 1, then replace any non-zero initial value of x[,b] with 1-x[,a].
>> But if you really need "less than", you'll need to specify what your
>> desired distribution of h - x[,"a"] + x[,"b"] should look like.
>> 
>> No?
>> 
>> 
>> B.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Oct 15, 2015, at 9:27 AM, Rainer M Krug <Rainer at krugs.de> wrote:
>> 
>>> Boris Steipe <boris.steipe at utoronto.ca> writes:
>>> 
>>>> I don't think the problem is well defined. Otherwise you could just
>>>> pick very small numbers from a range that is guaranteed to keep the
>>>> sum < h.
>>> 
>>> What further information is missing? That the variables should be
>>> covering the whole range from 0 to 1?
>>> 
>>> OK - forgotten to state that h <- 1.
>>> 
>>> This is for a sensitivity analysis which I want to conduct on a complex
>>> function.
>>> 
>>> Rainer
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> B.
>>>> 
>>>> On Oct 15, 2015, at 8:48 AM, Rainer M Krug <Rainer at krugs.de> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Hi
>>>>> 
>>>>> I need a Latin Hypercube with the following conditions:
>>>>> 
>>>>> 0 < x[,"a"] < 1
>>>>> 0 < x[,"b"] < 1
>>>>> 0 < x[,"c"] < 1
>>>>> 
>>>>> but also
>>>>> 
>>>>> x[,"a"] + x[,"b"] < h
>>>>> 
>>>>> The first three are easy:
>>>>> 
>>>>> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>>>>> n <- 1000
>>>>> 
>>>>> lhc <- lhs::randomLHS(n=n, k=3
>>>>> colnames(lhc) <- c("a", "b", "c")
>>>>> 
>>>>> x <- lhc
>>>>> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>>>>> 
>>>>> Now the last condition:
>>>>> 
>>>>> I tried
>>>>> 
>>>>> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>>>>> h <- 28
>>>>> x[,"a"] <- x[,"a"] / 2
>>>>> x[,"b"] <- x[,"b"] / 2
>>>>> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>>>>> 
>>>>> But this obviously reduces the individual ranges.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Using the rowSum as in 
>>>>> https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2013-October/361263.html
>>>>> 
>>>>> makes the sum of the variables also to 2.
>>>>> 
>>>>> So how can I create a Latin Hypercube which fulfills the conditions?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Rainer
>>>>> 
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Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany)

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Stellenbosch University
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