# Simulate vSRI with group location error Generate an estimated very simple ratio index under a given rate of missing observations of groups that are present ```r gleSimvSRI(aAB, w, pMissA, pMissB, n) ``` ## Arguments - `aAB`: The real association rate between individuals A and B - `w`: The group location error term - `pMissA`: Probability of missing group A - `pMissB`: Probability of missing group A - `n`: The number of sampling periods (number of observations of the dyad) ## Details A simple function that simulates data for a given probability of missing groups and real association strength. The w term represents the likelihood of failing to observe a group containing a and b compared to failing to observe both groups containing a and b if the two individuals are apart. The function returns the simulated very simple ratio index and whether the value lies within the 95 percent confidence intervals of the very simple ratio index given the number of samples and under the assumption of no error. ## Returns Returns two values: the simulated very simple ratio index and whether or not it falls within the 95 percent confidence intervals (1 = yes, 0 = no) ## References Hoppitt, W. & Farine, D.R. (in prep) Association indices for quantifying social relationships: how to deal with missing observations of individuals or groups. ## Author(s) William Hoppitt Damien Farine ## Examples ```r # Set a real association index aAB <- 0.5 # Set w range w <- seq(-1,1,0.1) # Set observation errors pMissA <- 0.7 pMissB <- 0.7 # Replicate N times replicates <- 100 # small number used to save computation time # Create a blank storage matrices assocStrength <- matrix(NA,nrow=replicates,ncol=length(w)) inCIs <- matrix(NA,nrow=replicates,ncol=length(w)) # Loop through repeating N times for each error value for (i in 1:length(w)) { for (j in 1:replicates) { out <- gleSimvSRI(aAB,w[i],pMissA,pMissB,20) assocStrength[j,i] <- out[1] inCIs[j,i] <- out[2] } } # Plot the results par(mfrow=c(1,2)) plot(w,colMeans(assocStrength, na.rm=TRUE), pch=20, ylim=c(0,1), ylab="Simulated vSRI") CIs <- apply(assocStrength,2,quantile,c(0.025,0.975),na.rm=TRUE) arrows(w,CIs[1,],w,CIs[2,],len=0.1,code=3,angle=90) abline(h=0.5,col="red") plot(w,colMeans(inCIs, na.rm=TRUE), pch=20, ylim=c(0,1), ylab="Percent of times in CIs") abline(h=0.95, col="red") ```

gleSimvSRI function