adjustKidsPerCouple: Generate or Adjust Number of Kids per Couple Based on Mating...

In R-Computing-Lab/BGMisc: An R Package for Extended Behavior Genetics Analysis

Generate or Adjust Number of Kids per Couple Based on Mating Rate

Description

This function generates or adjusts the number of kids per couple in a generation based on the specified average and whether the count should be randomly determined.

Usage

adjustKidsPerCouple(nMates, kpc, rd_kpc)

Arguments

nMates	Integer, the number of mated pairs in the generation.
kpc	Number of kids per couple. An integer >= 2 that determines how many kids each fertilized mated couple will have in the pedigree. Default value is 3. Returns an error when kpc equals 1.
rd_kpc	logical. If TRUE, the number of kids per mate will be randomly generated from a poisson distribution with mean kpc. If FALSE, the number of kids per mate will be fixed at kpc.

Value

A numeric vector with the generated or adjusted number of kids per couple.

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