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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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... Our main goal was to show how sensitivity and validity studies for microsimulation models might be undertaken. It is quite reasonable to speculate that similar studies of other models would produce comparably mixed results namely, that a model will prove to be most useful for some quantities and not as good for others.
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... 1990a Alignment Factors for AFDC Runs on Files Adjusted for the Undercount. Urban Institute memorandum of 1/10/90 to Connie Citro, Committee on National Statistics, Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council, Washington, D.C.
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... COHEN ET AL. the Urban Institute.
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