Simulation of Populations by Sampling Waiting-Time Distributions

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Documentation for package ‘VirtualPop’ version 1.0.2

• DESCRIPTION file.
• User guides, package vignettes and other documentation.
• Package NEWS.

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Children	Generates Individual Fertility Histories, Using Function Sim_bio.
dataLH	dataLH data
dpopus	dpopus data Population of the United States in 2019 reported in the HMD (Population.txt file)
GetData	Reads data from the HMD and HFD
GetGenerations	Creates Database 'dataLH' from Mortality Rates and Fertility Rates
GetRates	Retrieves Data from HMD and HFD for a Selected Country (All Years)
H_pw	Computes cumulative hazard at duration t.
Lifespan	Generates Individual Lifespan(s)
Partnership	Allocates Partners to Members of Virtual Population.
pw_root	Equation for which root must be determined.
r.pw_exp	Sample from a piecewise-constant exponential distribution.
rates	rates data
Sim_bio	Generic Function to Generate Single Life History