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• Winkel, B. (2022). 5-023-FakingGause-ModelingScenario. SIMIODE, QUBES Educational Resources. doi:10.25334/TRPR-KT70

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In his book, The Struggle for Existence G. F. Gause studied how best to combine strains of yeast to improve vodka production in the Soviet Union. Before studying yeast he studied strains of paramecium.

Gause presumed logistic growth for all his populations,

He studied species separately from observational data - we will do that here.

Often he noted his populations in units of numbers of organisms per cubic centimeter, and often he would start with just y(0) = 2 ``critters.''

He then went on to study mixed species (say Paramecium cadautum and Parameciam aurelia) or competing growth models. Gause called these equations "equations of the struggle for existence." How proletariat, how Soviet, how Stalinesque!!!