Recap¶

You have completed the theory for Basic users of MISCore, congratulations! You now know all you need to run MISCore and are ready to start adapting the EC model for your own project.

The remainder of the Basic tutorials introduce you to several tools that might be useful for your analysis, but they are not necessary to run MISCore models. If you want, you can skim through them to see if they are relevant for you. For all of them, it holds that you do not have to modify processes, you only have to modify data files and call specific functions.

Below we recap the most important points of the previous tutorials:

  • Everything that happens during an individual’s life is modelled by a Process. A Universe combines multiple Processes and multiple Universes can be used to compare scenarios with and without interventions. A Model may contain multiple Universes.

  • All Universes in a Model contain the same individuals. Their individual properties cannot be different, though life journeys may vary between the Universes due to our interventions. If you want to model different types of individuals, you should Run a population model.

  • MISCore contains a lot of built-in data (see Built-in data). As a basic user you are able to overwrite this data or create new data files.

  • The most important model outputs are events (happen at a certain point in time) and durations (keep track of a period of time). They can be exported to a csv.

  • Alternatively, you can do a lot of calculations in Python using pandas functions and save your processed output as a csv.

  • It is good practice to export the Result object after big runs because it contains all the information you need to replicate the run.

Good luck with the remainder of the tutorials!