Footnotes

... silico ¹

On a computer. Our simulations were written in C using MetroWerks CodeWarrior and run on a 500MHz Pentium III personal computer.

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... time ²

Calculated by evaluating the inverted survivor function at a uniform random variate between 0 and 1.

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... simulation ³

Using a professional lifetime average set to the averaged patient numbers over the first twenty-five years gave similar results. This figure was based on an hypothetical twenty-five year lifetime of a renal unit.

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... theory ⁴

For more on dynamical systems, see either the books by Jolivet (1982) or Jordan & Smith (1987) for a more mathematical approach.

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