Computer-Assisted Theory Building: Modeling Dynamic Social Systems

by Robert Hanneman

This volume provides a new set of tools for creating and analysing theories. Computer-Assisted Theory Building re-orients the way many social scientists build and work with theories -- and it will prove of value to all practising social science theorists. Because verbal formulations are insufficiently specific and mathematical formulations often too restrictive, the author proposes a new formal language as a middle way, advocating computer simulation...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803929617
• ISBN13: 9780803929616
• Release Date: April 1988
• Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
• Length: 354 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.