[R] Latin Hyper cube with condition col1+ col2 < x

Rainer M Krug Rainer at krugs.de
Thu Oct 15 15:27:03 CEST 2015


Boris Steipe <boris.steipe at utoronto.ca> writes:

> I don't think the problem is well defined. Otherwise you could just
> pick very small numbers from a range that is guaranteed to keep the
> sum < h.

What further information is missing? That the variables should be
covering the whole range from 0 to 1?

OK - forgotten to state that h <- 1.

This is for a sensitivity analysis which I want to conduct on a complex
function.

Rainer


>
>
> B.
>
> On Oct 15, 2015, at 8:48 AM, Rainer M Krug <Rainer at krugs.de> wrote:
>
>> Hi
>> 
>> I need a Latin Hypercube with the following conditions:
>> 
>> 0 < x[,"a"] < 1
>> 0 < x[,"b"] < 1
>> 0 < x[,"c"] < 1
>> 
>> but also
>> 
>> x[,"a"] + x[,"b"] < h
>> 
>> The first three are easy:
>> 
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>> n <- 1000
>> 
>> lhc <- lhs::randomLHS(n=n, k=3
>> colnames(lhc) <- c("a", "b", "c")
>> 
>> x <- lhc
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>> 
>> Now the last condition:
>> 
>> I tried
>> 
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>> h <- 28
>> x[,"a"] <- x[,"a"] / 2
>> x[,"b"] <- x[,"b"] / 2
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>> 
>> But this obviously reduces the individual ranges.
>> 
>> Using the rowSum as in 
>> https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2013-October/361263.html
>> 
>> makes the sum of the variables also to 2.
>> 
>> So how can I create a Latin Hypercube which fulfills the conditions?
>> 
>> Rainer
>> 
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