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Creating a Cohort
4.1 The Five Major Steps
In general, you need to complete five steps to create and analyze a new cohort. Although each
one of these steps can require some detailed information, you usually can successfully create a
new cohort by hitting toolbar icons in the order shown beiow and accepting the default vaiues.
Being able to create a new cohort assumes that you've created your input data files and have
given some thought to your user input parameters.
Icons will appear on the toolbar oniy after the previous icon has been selected and the ensuing
steps have been completed. In other words, you'll be able to select only icon 1 when you first start,
but after you've completed that step, you'll be able. to select icon 2.
1. New file Icon allows you to select a species and create a new cohort or summary
2. Setup icon selects· options and loads data
3. P·value icon estimates the proportion of maximum consumption required to produce the input
growth
4. Run icon executes a Bioenergetics run
5. Graph or Spreadsheet icon generates output .
4.2 Step 1: New Cohort and Select a Species
* From the main Fish Bioenergetics 3.0 window, select File/New or press the new-file icon.
The folloWing window will appear.