I have been messing around and found that I get a better comparison between CASAL and the ABM when I make age an explicit characteristic of the agent and age it in the growth() function. This differs from the current situation where we imply age, where age = current_year - birth year. I have attached figures and I can add models if anyone is interested. But basically I turned off fishing and these models are purely M and recruitment (with varying devs). The top figure is current implementation and bottim figure is with age explicit. Th code for the bottom figure is coded here
These seem like trivial differences but, I think if Casal is going to be the re-estimation model we should align the dynamics as closely as possible? any thoughts on this. I can do a pull request if you agree.
I have been messing around and found that I get a better comparison between CASAL and the ABM when I make age an explicit characteristic of the agent and age it in the growth() function. This differs from the current situation where we imply age, where age = current_year - birth year. I have attached figures and I can add models if anyone is interested. But basically I turned off fishing and these models are purely M and recruitment (with varying devs). The top figure is current implementation and bottim figure is with age explicit. Th code for the bottom figure is coded here
These seem like trivial differences but, I think if Casal is going to be the re-estimation model we should align the dynamics as closely as possible? any thoughts on this. I can do a pull request if you agree.