Validation of the simulation3 years ago
Introduction | Validity | References
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Families and Kinship Networks in Virtual Populations. The 'Families' package.4 years ago
Introduction | The 'VirtualPop' package | Basic functions to navigate the virtual population database | Mothers and grandmothers | Children and grandchildren | Child's perspective | Combinations of basic functions | Siblings | IDs of siblings | Age distribution of siblings | Cousins | Aunts | Grandparenthood | Double burden: young children and aging parent | The fertility table: multistate life table | References
Sampling Piecewise-Exponential Waiting Time Distributions4 years ago
Introduction | Theoretical background: simulating waiting times | Overview | The piecewise-exponential distribution | Application: generating individual ages at death from period death rates | References
Simulation of life histories4 years ago
Introduction | Theoretical background: simulating life histories | Illustration: simulation of a single life history | Application: fertility histories of women in the United States | References
VirtualPop: Simulation of individual fertility careers from age-specific fertility and mortality rates4 years ago
Introduction | Install the package | Download the data | Mortality and fertility rates | Generate a virtual population | Replace age at death by age at censoring | Export the virtual population from R to STATA and SPSS | Convert decimal dates into calendar dates | Additional application: fertility careers in Japan | References
