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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461633503321

Titolo

Assessing the use of agent-based models for tobacco regulation / / Committee on Assessment of Agent-Based Models to Inform Tobacco Product Regulation, Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice, Robert Wallace, Amy Geller, and V. Ayano Ogawa, Editors, Institute of Medicine of the National Academies

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, District of Columbia : , : The National Academies Press, , [2015]

©2015

ISBN

0-309-31723-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (280 p.)

Disciplina

362.2960973

Soggetti

Smoking - Health aspects

Smoking cessation

Tobacco use - Prevention

Tobacco use - Health aspects - Research - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Matter; Reviewers; Contents; Acronyms and Abbreviations; Preface; Summary; 1 Introduction; 2 Tobacco Control Landscape; 3 Building Effective Models to Guide Policy Decision Making; 4 An Evaluation Framework for Policy-Relevant Agent-Based Models; 5 Review of the Social Network Analysis for Policy on Directed Graph Networks Model; 6 Data and Implementation Needs for Computational Modeling for Tobacco Control; Appendix A: Considerations and Best Practices in Agent-Based Modeling to Inform Policy--Ross A. Hammond; Appendix B: Agent-Based Models for Policy Analysis--Lawrence Blume

Appendix C: Assessing Agent-Based Models for Regulatory Applications: Lessons from Energy Analysis--Alan H. Sanstad Appendix D: Committee Meeting Agendas; Appendix E: Committee Biographical Sketches; Index