Polygny puzzle

Analysis materials for Ross, et al., "Greater wealth inequality, less polygyny: rethinking the polygyny threshold model" (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2018.0035). This code was written by Cody Ross, who also organized the source datasets, and this repository is forked from a sub-folder in https://github.com/ctross/Publications.

Instructions:

In R, set the working directory to that containing this readme file. For example, on a Mac or Linux machine, you might type into the command prompt

  setwd('~/Desktop/polygynypuzzle')

if the folder containing the project is named 'polygynypuzzle' and on your Desktop. You can tell if you are in the right place by typing in dir() and seeing this readme.txt file as well as:

• run_all.R - an R wrapper file which executes all the code in Code/

• Code/ - a subfolder containing all code for the project, in R and Stan formats

• Data/ - a subfolder containing all data for the project, in CSV format

The analysis itself is relatively straightforward, and can be re-run by typing:

  source('./run_all.R')

with the project folder as the working directory. If all goes well, the project analysis will execute step-by-step and all results written into the folder (taking about 4 hours to complete on a relatively modern desktop computer).

The project is maintained by Bret Beheim (beheim@gmail.com) and Cody Ross (cody_ross@eva.mpg.de) and is hosted at https://github.com/babeheim and https://github.com/ctross/Publications/tree/master/polygynypuzzle.