README for vital rate regression Quadrat-Based Model directories

This directory contains sub-directories for fitting the quadrat-based model (truncNormModel), a subdirectory containing scripts for running cross-validation and ridge regression for each vital rate (regularization/), and a subdirectory containing scripts for leave-one-year-out cross-validation for each vital rate regression (truncNormModel/validation/). There is also a cache/ directory containing old versions of scripts.