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Dakota Reference Manual
Version 6.15
Explore and Predict with Confidence
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Use the best designs to form a new population
Alias: none
Argument(s): none
The elitist
(default) setting creates a new population using (a) the replacement_size
best individuals from the current population, (b) and population_size
- replacement_size
individuals randomly selected from the newly generated individuals. It is possible in this case to lose a good solution from the newly generated individuals if it is not randomly selected for replacement; however, the default new_solutions_generated
value is set such that the entire set of newly generated individuals will be selected for replacement.