New pathways in microsimulation / by Gijs Dekkers, Marcia Keegan and Cathal O'Donoghue.

Microsimulation as a modelling tool in social sciences has increased in importance over the last few decades. Once restricted to a handful of universities and government departments, as a scientific field it has achieved a new dynamism during the last decade. As computing power increases and data av...

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Main Author: Dekkers, Gijs
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Farnham, Surrey : Ashgate Publishing Limited, [2014]
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Summary:Microsimulation as a modelling tool in social sciences has increased in importance over the last few decades. Once restricted to a handful of universities and government departments, as a scientific field it has achieved a new dynamism during the last decade. As computing power increases and data availability becomes more widespread, microsimulation models can be put to hitherto unprecedented uses. Edited by leading experts in the field, this book illustrates recent advances, methodologies and uses of socioeconomic microsimulation in social sciences around the world. It does so by analysing.
Physical Description:1 online resource
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781409469322
1409469328
1306411076
9781306411073
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9781317088271
1317088263
9781317088264
Language:English.
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.