submatrix: A Five-Variable Sub-Matrix of the First Five Variables of...

In LoopAnalyst: A Collection of Tools to Conduct Levins' Loop Analysis

Description

This dataset represents a subset of the causal relationships defining Dambacher's five-variable system. Specifically, it contains the first five variables of the dataset cm.dambacher.

Usage

data(submatrix)

Format

A 5 by 5 (-1, 0, 1) matrix. The matrix is interpreted as the jth variable has the direct causal effect a[i,j] on i.

References

Dambacher, J. M. and Li, H. W. and Rossignol, P. A. (2002) Relevance of community structure in assessing indeterminacy of ecological predictions. Ecology, 83(5),1372–1385.

Puccia, C. J. and Levins, R. (1986) Qualitative Modeling of Complex Systems: An Introduction to Loop Analysis and Time Averaging. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

LoopAnalyst documentation built on May 2, 2019, 5:14 a.m.