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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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... 95-113~. As is typical with most external validations of microsimulation models, given the conditional nature of the forecasts, certain unforeseen circumstances needed to be taken into account so that the conditional forecasts could be "unconditionally" compared with the actual results.
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