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## WHAT IS IT?

This model simulates the behaviour of houses celebrating New Year. The overall
number of houses who have done that is reported at the end of each simulation step.
When the 'copy-neighbour' switch is deselected, each house launches fireworks with a certain fixed probability in each step of the simulation. When the 'copy-neighbour' switch is selected, the probability of a house launching fireworks increases if its immediate neighbours are firing on this day.

## TO DO

Copy the numbers for each case and check whether they conform to a Poisson distribution.
Can you tell from the results which of the two cases corresponds to independent events (when houses do not look at each other, so there is no coordination between them, which in turn excludes the existence of communication)?

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