Talk:Fitness proportionate selection

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This page is a bit of a mess: There are basically 2 slightly conflicting versions of the page here. The 2nd one is shorter, less clear, and more opinionated, so I'm going to remove it.

[edit] fitness -> probability of selection function

Could someone give an example of a function to relate fitness to probability of selection? Seems like a simple concept, but I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around it.

Article claims that: Selecting N chromosomes from the population is equivalent to playing N games on the roulette wheel, as each candidate is drawn independently.

What if multiple outcomes are the same ? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.167.10.135 (talk) 21:43, 15 January 2008 (UTC)