Creating realistic synthetic populations at varying spatial scales: A comparative critique of population synthesis techniques

JASSS

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Harland, Kirk ^a   Heppenstall, Alison ^a   Smith, Dianna ^b   Birkin, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b Department of Geography ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conditional probability; Deterministic reweighting; Population synthesis; Simulated annealing; Spatial scales

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859624492     PISSN: 14607425     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18564/jasss.1909     Document Type: Article

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