Agent-based models as policy decision tools: The case of smallpox vaccination

Simulation and Gaming

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 225-242

  Grüne Yanoff, Till ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

agent based simulations; decision making; epidemics; exploratory modeling; methodology; smallpox; vaccination policy; validity

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955712510     PISSN: 10468781     EISSN: 1552826X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1046878110377484     Document Type: Article

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