Sim_bio {VirtualPop}

Generic Function to Generate Single Life History

Description

The function generates a single life history from age-specific transition rates (rates$ratesM) and an initial state. RatesM is an object with the rates in the proper format for multistate modelling. The user supplies the starting age and ending age of the simulation.

Usage

Sim_bio(datsim, ratesM)

Arguments

datsim

Dataframe with, for each individual, ID, date of birth, starting and ending times (ages) of the simulation, and the state occupied at the start of the simulation (see vignette "Tutorial").

ratesM

Multistate transition rates in standard (multistate) format

Details

The function is called from the function VirtualPop::Children(). It uses the rpexp() function of the msm package.

Value

age_startSim

Age at start of simulation

age_endSim

Age at end of simulation

nstates

Number of states

path

path: sequence of states occupied

ages_trans

Ages at transition

Examples

  # Fertily history is simulated from starting age to ending age
  # Individual starts in state "par0"
  utils::data(rates,package="VirtualPop")
  popsim <- data.frame(ID=1,born=2000.450,start=0,end=80,st_start="par0")
  ch <- VirtualPop::Sim_bio (datsim=popsim,ratesM=rates$ratesM)