Chapter on setting up model with pre-populated initial state

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From request within cohort.

Notes from DC reply (specifically relating to having a patient waiting list model for RTT):

I'd probably suggest the easiest way would be to have some "warm up" distributions that only apply for the first x time units of your model (or just have a separate generator function that's called at the very beginning of the model only that spits out your initial patients into the model with the correct waiting times), and which reflect the current spread of waiting times (I mean you could even fix it to exactly the current waiting times if you wanted, but I'd probably still keep a bit of variability in there too). Thereafter, you can then just switch to the standard distributions you'll use to reflect RTT times going forward.