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Title: | Application of statistical emulation to an agent-based model: assortative mating and the reversal of gender inequality in education in Belgium. | Authors: | De Mulder, W. Grow, A. MOLENBERGHS, Geert VERBEKE, Geert |
Issue Date: | 2015 | Source: | Friedl, Herwig; Wagner, Helga (Ed.). Proceedings of the 30th International Workshop on Statistical Modelling, p. 139-144 | Abstract: | We describe the application of statistical emulation to the outcomes of an agent-based model. The agent-based model simulates the mechanisms that might have linked the reversal of gender inequality in higher education with observed changes in educational assortative mating in Belgium. Using the statistical emulator as a computationally fast approximation to the expensive agent-based model, it is feasible to use a genetic algorithm in finding the parameter values for which the corresponding agent-based model outcome is closest to known empirical output. These optimal parameter values are then interpreted sociologically | Keywords: | statistical emulation; Gaussian process; Agent-based model; genetic algorithm | Document URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1942/21021 | Rights: | This paper was published as a part of the proceedings of the 30th International Workshop on Statistical Modelling, Johannes Kepler Universit¨at Linz, 6–10 July 2015. The copyright remains with the author(s). Permission to reproduce or extract any parts of this abstract should be requested from the author(s) | Category: | C2 | Type: | Proceedings Paper |
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