*2.5. Verification, Validation, and Iterations*

R's native debugging ensured proper coding, while a comparison of a priori and posterior distributions, through hypothesis testing, ensured distributional integrity. To be valid for model comparison, pseudo-random number streams were identical across experimental. To do so, the function "*set.seed*" was used in R, a function which randomly generates a series of numbers so that the differences in simulation results are not to selection of random values.
