Timeline for How likely am I to be descended from a particular person born in the year 1300?
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| Nov 26, 2012 at 22:31 | history | edited | whuber♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 26, 2012 at 22:28 | comment | added | whuber♦ |
@Max The code is now up. I apologize for the lack of comments. If you run each of randomPairs and next on test data, their functions should become apparent. Notice the use of NestList to iterate next in order to produce multiple generations.
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| Nov 26, 2012 at 22:24 | history | edited | whuber♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 26, 2012 at 21:48 | comment | added | assumednormal | @whuber Did you run the simulation in Mathematica? Would you mind posting code? | |
| Oct 28, 2011 at 19:20 | history | bounty ended | xpda | ||
| Oct 28, 2011 at 19:20 | vote | accept | xpda | ||
| Oct 26, 2011 at 3:22 | comment | added | whuber♦ | @xpda Mathematical solutions will provide insight into what matters and what doesn't. For instance, they will show that you don't necessarily need to model huge populations. They will also indicate the role played by variability, which is harder to handle analytically and comes to the fore in a simulation. | |
| Oct 26, 2011 at 2:43 | comment | added | xpda | I think modeling like this may be the best approach. It is far simpler and more fun (for me) than the math, and it should make it much easier to introduce factors restricting mate selection. Do you have any recommendations, caveats, or other advice before I dive in on this? | |
| Oct 26, 2011 at 0:23 | history | answered | whuber♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |