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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Dear Basta users.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US">I am beginning to explore Basta in order to analyze the survival parameters of a rattlesnake. I have a dataset of 53 individuals surveyed for 8 consecutive months. I’ve made some preliminary
analyses and I’ve got two questions:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US">1) The simulations of the models I’ve made failed to converge. I ran the analyses with 4 simulations as shown in the tutorial, and I wonder if more simulations could lead to convergence.
How many simulations would you recommend me to run?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US">2) I have a little bit of trouble with the interpretation of the results. Basta provides the parameters of the mortality function used in the model, as I understand but, is there a way
in which Basta provides the user a specific numerical value of the survival and mortality proportion?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Thanks in advance<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Ricardo Figueroa<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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