topic How to work on GA if i have a population where the optimal sample size is to be calculated? in SAS Data Science https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Data-Science/How-to-work-on-GA-if-i-have-a-population-where-the-optimal/m-p/141104#M1368 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>If there is a population and an optimal sample size is to be obtained using a fitness value, how does one work on it using Genetic Algotrithm? Can anyone give some alike example, except the usual four examples available in the sasuser's guide, thank you in advance</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 13 Nov 2013 06:43:25 GMT vivianclmnz 2013-11-13T06:43:25Z How to work on GA if i have a population where the optimal sample size is to be calculated? https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Data-Science/How-to-work-on-GA-if-i-have-a-population-where-the-optimal/m-p/141104#M1368 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>If there is a population and an optimal sample size is to be obtained using a fitness value, how does one work on it using Genetic Algotrithm? Can anyone give some alike example, except the usual four examples available in the sasuser's guide, thank you in advance</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 13 Nov 2013 06:43:25 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Data-Science/How-to-work-on-GA-if-i-have-a-population-where-the-optimal/m-p/141104#M1368 vivianclmnz 2013-11-13T06:43:25Z Re: How to work on GA if i have a population where the optimal sample size is to be calculated? https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Data-Science/How-to-work-on-GA-if-i-have-a-population-where-the-optimal/m-p/389120#M5900 <P><SPAN>The only literature we have for PROC GA is the documentation. &nbsp;There are other SAS procedures that can compute sample size for specific simple scenarios, but it is not clear these would be applicable to your situation. &nbsp;If you could be more specific about how you hope to incorporate fitness information into determining your sample and provide some more description of the data you have available (or which you hope to access), we might be able to provide more information.</SPAN></P> <P><SPAN><BR />Cordially,</SPAN></P> <P><SPAN>Doug</SPAN></P> Fri, 18 Aug 2017 14:47:52 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Data-Science/How-to-work-on-GA-if-i-have-a-population-where-the-optimal/m-p/389120#M5900 DougWielenga 2017-08-18T14:47:52Z