Simulation: an introduction for anthropologists.
Expert InsightsPublished 1962
An analysis of simulation as an expanded version of psychological experimentation in connection with such factors as complexity and realism of the environment, dependence of stimuli, outcomes, and stumulus-outcome connections on behavior, complexity of the response alternatives, and complexity of the subject. Emphasis is on laboratory simulation rather than on computtational modeling. The paper discusses the nature of simulation, mathematical models, versimilitude and involvement, applications, and simulated environment is related to real-situation behavior in a way that he can understand and explain in his reports, and he must also plan to collect data that will convince his colleagues.
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- Copyright: RAND Corporation
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- Year: 1962
- Pages: 37
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.7249/pubs
- Document Number: P-2668
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