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Bert Gunter "The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along and sticking things into it." -- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip ) On Thu, Jul 16, 2020 at 3:39 PM Shah Alam <dr.alamsola...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am designing a programme in R to simulate two events that are 1. a person > gets cancer, or 2. die of other causes. I have data for the probability of > getting cancer by age and probability of death due to causes other than > cancer. > > 1. > > My dataset has 3 columns 1) age 2) prob getting cancer 3) prob dying > other causes. I generate random number using runif(1, min = 0, max = 1). > 2. > > This random number compares with all the values in the second column > (prob getting cancer) and give the age which has the same value of > probability as this random number. Then it compares with all the values > in > the 3rd column and gives the age at which women die because of causes > other > than cancer. > > The problem is: > > 1. > > I want an R code in which the random number compares in both the columns > simultaneously (prob of getting cancer, and prob of death) step by step. > for example, if the random number is 0.2, first the code checks the > observation 1 in the column of getting cancer if it fails to get the > same > values. Then it checks the observation 1 in the column of death due to > other causes. If it fails then move to 2nd observation of prob getting > cancer............ The process should go on until it finds the age which > has the same value of probability as this random number. Kindly help me > on > how to do this in R. > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
