Population dynamics

Library to conduct experiements on population dynamics.

Installation

• To generate required log and results directories, run

bash init.sh

• Create virtual environment

mkdir -p ~/venvs/population-dynamics
python3 -m venv ~/venvs/population-dynamics

• Activate virtual environment

source ~/venvs/population-dynamics/bin/activate

• Upgrade pip and setuptools

pip install --upgrade pip setuptools

• install dependencies with

pip install -r requirements.txt

• Install causal_inference as a package within the environment

python setup.py develop

Running the Lotka-Volterra simulation

• The Lotka-Volterra simulator class exists in repo/causal_inference/base/lv_simulator.py.

• The Lotka-Volterra simulation parameters are fetched from repo/causal_inference/config.py. You can edit the config.py file directly to play around with the parameter values.

• You can run the simulator directly from terminal by running

python causal_inference/base/lv_simulator.py

• The simulation statistics will be saved in the repo/results directory.