Internal consistency of a synthetic population construction method for chronic disease micro-simulation models.
BACKGROUND:Micro-simulation models of risk-factors and chronic diseases are built increasingly often, and each model starts with an initial population. Constructing such populations when no survey data covering all variables are available is no trivial task, often requiring complex methods based on...
Main Authors: | René Kooiker, Hendriek C Boshuizen |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2018-01-01
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Series: | PLoS ONE |
Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6237328?pdf=render |
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