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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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... In addition, in acknowledgment of the influential effect that the results from any of the 16 versions could have on the analysis, it is often of interest to repeat this type of analysis using some form of robust analysis of variance to reduce the impact of a large interaction effect, or possibly a clearly inferior alternative module. Nonparametric Analysis Another way of communicating the relative strengths of the various model versions is to simply display in a table the differences between the various estimates and the comparison values for each version and each response of interest.
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... Fifth, the 1983 quality control estimates for change, which assume no change from 1983 to 1987, performed better than the average model version (the average rank being 9 for Table 5~. Under some circumstances the comparison values for the beginning of the period of study provide an interesting challenge to the estimates from the various model versions.
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