knife: knife edge ogive

In flr/FLife: Methods for Modelling Life History Traits

knife edge ogive

Description

A method to simulate a knife edge ogive where at a given age the proportion chnages from 0 to 1

Usage

## S4 method for signature 'FLQuant,FLPar'
knife(age, params, ...)

Arguments

age	FLQuant, FLPar or numeric with ages
params	FLPar
...	any other arguments

Details

The knife ogive is an S-shaped or knife curve or knifeal functions, Verhulst hypothesizes that small populations increase geometrically, because the supply of resources exceeds demand. Then, as supply and demand balance, population growth is constant. Finally, as demand exceeds supply, population growth decreases at the same rate that it had increased. Verhulst describes this process with an equation that enables him to predict when a population will reach any given size (see Verhulst's Figure):

Value

returns an object of same type as age e.g. FLQuant

See Also

sigmoid, dnormal, logistic

Examples

## Not run: 
params=FLPar(a1=4)
age=FLQuant(1:10,dimnames=list(age=1:10))
knife(age,params)

## End(Not run)

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