Re: More Questions about analysing ABMs

[M Lang / S Railsback]

address@hidden wrote:
> 
> Steve,
> 
> Thanks so much for your comments.  

A trick you might consider is to run your model over a range of values
for some input (e.g., the magnitude of the intervention, or the severity
of the injury) and see if you get a significant trend in results. In
general, some of us think that trends are more useful and meaningful
than tests for statistical significance* when looking at typically
complex relations between stressors and responses in messy systems.

*Suter, G. W. (1996). Abuse of hypothesis testing statistics in
ecological risk assessment. Human and Ecological Risk Assessment 2(2):
331-347.

Steve
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