Prospects and pitfalls of statistical testing: Insights from replicating the demographic prisoner's dilemma

JASSS

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Radax, Wolfgang ^a   Rengs, Bernhard ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Agent based model; Comparative computational methodology; Demographic prisoners dilemma; Prisoners dilemma; Replication; Verification

Indexed keywords

EID: 78449290233     PISSN: 14607425     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18564/jasss.1634     Document Type: Article

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