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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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... CONCLUDING NOTE The specific application of statistical matching as input into microsimulation models Possibly the most extensive use of the methodology, but certainly not the only one) makes certain demands on the data set that must be recognized when producing statistically matched files for this purpose.
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... The use of what one might call "classical" statistical matching in microsimulation models, that is, assuming without evidence the conditional independence assumption, is very likely to misinform. At the very least, some of the sensitivity analysis described above should be performed to assess the likely effect due to failure of the assumption.
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  • proportional fitting
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  • control totals
  • income tax
  • simulation model
  • constrained statistical
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