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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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... An advantage of the dichotomized version is that, since its mean is a percentage, analysis of projections as estimates of change is simplified, there being numerous ways to analyze changes in the distribution of a categorical variable. Two outputs of great interest are the aggregate responses of total participants and total benefits.
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... The dichotomized version studied was 1 for two and 0 otherwise. Children eligible to be aided in AFDC unit.
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From page 285...
... NOTE: Differences among model runs and between a model run and the IQCS may not be stai~si~cally significant. 285 households where there are more than two children, (2)
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