# twinstim_siaf_simulatePC: Simulation from an Isotropic Spatial Kernel via Polar... In surveillance: Temporal and Spatio-Temporal Modeling and Monitoring of Epidemic Phenomena

## Description

To sample points from isotropic power-law kernels f_2(s) = f(||s||) such as siaf.powerlaw on a bounded domain (i.e., ||s|| < \code{ub}), it is convenient to switch to polar coordinates (r,θ), which have a density proportional to r f_2((r \cos(θ), r \sin(θ))) = r f(r) (independent of the angle θ due to isotropy). The angle is thus simply drawn uniformly in [0,2π), and r can be sampled by the inversion method, where numeric root finding is used for the quantiles (since the quantile function is not available in closed form).

## Usage

 1 siaf.simulatePC(intrfr) 

## Arguments

 intrfr a function computing the integral of r f(r) from 0 to R (first argument, not necessarily named R). Parameters of the function are passed as its second argument and a third argument is the event type.

## Value

a function with arguments (n, siafpars, type, ub), which samples n points from the spatial kernel f_2(s) within the disc of radius ub, where siafpars and type are passed as second and third argument to intrfr. The environment of the returned function will be the caller's environment.

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## Examples

 1 2 3 4 5 simfun <- siaf.powerlaw()\$simulate ## is internally generated as siaf.simulatePC(intrfr.powerlaw) set.seed(1) simfun(n=10, siafpars=log(c(sigma=1, d=2)), ub=5) 

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