That is, a step back to look at the problem I am trying to solve again. I recently acquired a book entitled "Individual-based modeling and ecology." How perfect is this, I thought. And it is indeed a great resource. It has a section that lays the modeling/simulation process out in a way I have been looking for since I started this project.
Anyway, this section prompted me to take another look at the question I am asking before I begin writing detailed code. Doing so does not invalidate anything I have done so far because my code is not specialized yet.
This week I will come up with a very specific question to be answered by my model AND develop hypotheses that my model can test. This is in contrast with the very vague goal I have had so far of modeling chick survivorship.
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