Agent-based modeling and simulation of depression and its impact on student success and academic retention

ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings

Volumn 2016-June, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Abdelhamid, Sherif Elmeligy ^a   Kuhlman, Chris J ^b   Marathe, Madhav V ^a   Ravi, S S ^c   Reid, Kenneth ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

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