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Improving Information for Social Policy Decisions -- The Uses of Microsimulation Modeling Volume II, Technical Papers (1991) / Chapter Skim
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... Factors affecting the demand for and availability of microanalytic models also are assessed, with special emphasis on shifts in the production function through software advances and the ability to exploit future desktop computing environment characteristics. Finally, an overall assessment is presented of alternatives for investing in the evolution of TRIM2, as well as recommendations for investment planning for future microanalytic simulation model developments in general.
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... defining procedures, or operating characteristics,3 for each component of the model, that describe how the knowledge is to be applied to microanalytic simulation units to derive their behavior under alternative assumptions;4 (b) coding each operating characteristic into a computer-executable module that applies that procedure to a specific micropopulation unit used as the basis for the simulation exercise; and (c)
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