adjustKidsPerCouple {BGmisc}

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.