Agent-based modeling: Use with necessary caution [1]

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 97, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 780-781

  Jones, Gregory Todd ^a,b,c  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Consortium on Negotiation and Conflict Resolution ^*  (United States)

^c Computational Laboratory for Complex Adaptive Systems ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRINKING BEHAVIOR; LETTER; METHODOLOGY; PROBABILITY; PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM; SOCIOLOGY; VALIDITY; HUMAN; NOTE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ALCOHOL DRINKING; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 34247238282     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2006.109058     Document Type: Letter

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