Simulating Life

All the balancing is done and the simulation runs smoothly. I need to finish up data collection for my trials and do the handout and final paper.

The T- Test has been completed and simulation is doing what is predicted without flaw. Current work is being done on handout.

I have been focusing on the handout and final question. I was able to introduce a random introduction of new parasite eggs over time to imitate monthly king tide that would release eggs trapped in dried bird poop. This allows for a more random reintroduction of parasites if the starting population dies off.

For this week, I was able to create two simulations where immune dogs and immune humans were compared. Data was collected for the two simulations and a T-test was performed. The T-test revealed that the immunization of humans was better for the human population than the other simulation with immunized dogs. Immunizing the humans gave the human population an average of 5% increased chance of survival.

Well my plan for next week is balance my code out a little more so the agents do not die as quickly because I won’t be there so it would be weird if the code does not run properly for at least a minute.

I do not have something in particular to be review as I know what I need to fix around which the probability of agents dying, which I can simply resolve by changing numbers around until the code can run at least for a minute or more.

Well let the testing begin!!!

This is going to be a rough weekend.  I went from ahead of the curve to behind, by being a nit-picky perfectionist.  This weekend is dedicated to testing and data collection.  Monday, Tatiana has agreed to show me how to T-test my results, and final product WILL BE ready for weds…One way or the other

TIghten up my shot group, grab my bootstraps…and here …we…go!!!

I did my data all over again on Friday and started my EDTA at 40, 80, 120, 160, 200. Ran the simulation 10 times with different EDTA amounts, plotted and graphed in excel. This actually worked 100 times better than the last data set I had in excel. Now I am ready to maybe start thinking about adding in Ca+ deposits in as a bonus to my simulation and add in my simulation and graphs.

I want to create an agent that is changing the color from brown to purple when the clock is between 200 and 300. It seems like there is something wrong with my code and it doesn’t change the color..

This week I took more data for a second graph in Excel and a t-test. I also wrote my paper. Maybe I can have you review it with me this week?

Left to Right: Chinook, Chinook/Whales, Chinook/Whales/Parasite, Chinook/Whales/Parasite/Urchins

Last week I did a lot of re-balancing of the initial spawn numbers, movement, energy gain per food, reproduction needs etc… and the results of the balancing are the images above.
I like what is going on so far and it fits with my hypothesis pretty well.

I shifted my time frame from 400-1400 seconds to 100-1000 seconds because either the population crashes or the simulation crashes because their isn’t enough fish/urchins to feed on the kelp that grows.

This week I’m going to continue to collect data for ANOVA. The only question I have at the moment is what should I do about the solely Chinook simulation? Should I still collect the average from 100-1000 or try and get it too run till 1000 or adjust the time collection period? The issue I am having is that since there are no predators or disease for the Chinook and kelp reproduce pretty quickly the Chinook grow out of control then eat all the kelp and crash.