•The modelFrom data it is possible to derive a model that describes the size of the owl and squirrel populations in a given month as functions of the population sizes the preceding month--a discrete dynamical system. (To lean how to fit such a model to the data, see [links to be supplied].) The model you will use is as follows. At a given time The model used here appears in Exercise 5, Section 5.6, of David C. Lay, Linear Algebra and Its Applications, 2nd ed.Addison-Wesley, Reading, Mass., 2000, page 346. Converted by Mathematica (September 5, 2002) |