Section

Comments

L1

Basic concepts

System under study, model, purpose, etc.

L2

Modelling in StochSD

Model building and preparations for Lab1

Lab 1

Structure and Behaviour

You model the structure and the simulation shows the model behaviour.

L3

Important techniques

Sensitivity analysis, Optimization, Model fitting. The tools Sensi & Optim do this.

Lab 2

Model fitting, Optimization and Sensitivity analysis

Practicing L3.

L4

Randomness, Statistical distributions and Random numbers

Basic statistics and Random numbers.

L5

Stochastic modelling

Including different kinds of uncertainties into the model.

Lab3

Deterministic vs. Stochastic Model Building and Simulation

Practicing L4 and L5. Showing that deterministic modelling can be misleading and insufficient.

L6

Statistical output analysis and the tool StatRes

The outcomes from a stochastic model varies, why many replications and statistical analysis are required. StatRes does this.