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Anand
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Model Review

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Hi
Require help to review this model and correct the error of Simultaneous Equation at two locations.
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Re: Model Review

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Both "New Product Devt" and "r & d staff" need to be levels.
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Units are important!
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Anand
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Re: Model Review

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Administrator wrote:Both "New Product Devt" and "r & d staff" need to be levels.
Hi
Thank you for the help. I could manage to remove the error with model, but after changing the types to level there is new error that cropped up in units check. I did not understand this error. Request your help in this too.
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tomfid
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Re: Model Review

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Whenever you have a stock with units of (stuff), its associated flows will have units of (stuff/time). This arises from the basic nature of the stock-flow relationship: the flow is the rate of change over time of the stock.

So, where you have R&D staff, they should be just people, but hiring is the change in people, in people/month.

Tom
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