As appropriate, we reduced (for less virulent) or increased (for more virulent) the input values used in the primary scenario (Table 1; Appendix Table 1).
In the future, it will be important to explore more input conditions, parameter values, and model structures by simulation, as well as develop the theory explaining the nature of the tradeoffs, and define hard constraints.
The latter since it is possible that some of the Mexican value-added content in the gross value of Canadian final production is a consequence of selling intermediate inputs to a non-NAFTA country which in turn re-exports as an intermediate input (the Mexican product plus more inputs and value added), and then in Canada the final product is finished.
The values between the 25th and 75th percentiles reflect a more likely combination of altered input values resulting in a more likely estimate of the uncertainties in the central tendency estimates.
In order to test how the results react to a simultaneous variation of several inputs, we assumed four reasonable alternative scenarios of which two scenarios (ClosureFast + and ClosureFast++) were based on input values more likely to favor a "World with ClosureFast" and two other scenarios based on input values more likely to favor a "World without ClosureFast" (ClosureFast- and ClosureFast).
The "Optional parameters setting" panel contains three more input parameters: "Overlap": a value between 0 and 1, denoting the maximum allowed fraction of common nodes between two alignments, in order to be considered distinct.
As any hash function maps input values to more compact space, collisions are unavoidable and the only valid question is how often they appear, not if they appear at all.
The 5-day spline interpolated time series, itself an accurate representation of the input time series, was described very accurately by TFA, and provides more accurate estimates of the input values of mean, amplitudes and phases.
As one might expect, the introduction of ClosureFast saves more costs in the scenarios with input values favoring a "World with ClosureFast" compared with the Base Case.
The input values during fuzzification process can belong to more than one fuzzy set with the different degreed of membership.
