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Title Ethics in modeling / edited by William A. Wallace
Edition First edition
Published Oxford, OX, U.K. ; Tarrytown, N.Y., U.S.A. : Pergamon, 1994

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Description vii, 266 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents Ethical Concerns and Ethical Answers / Saul I. Gass -- Responsible Policy Modeling / Warren E. Walker -- Society's Role in the Ethics of Modeling / Edith H. Leet and William A. Wallace -- Appendix A: Authors (Affiliation at Time of Publication) -- Appendix B: Ethics in Modeling Workshop Agenda -- Appendix C: Ethics in Modeling Workshop Participants (Affiliation at Time of Workshop)
Introduction / William A. Wallace -- Uses of Modeling in Science and Society / John Allison, Abraham Charnes, William W. Cooper and Toshiyuki Sueyoshi -- An Epistemological View of Decision Aid Technology with Emphasis on Expert Systems / Harold D. Carrier and William A. Wallace -- Models in the Public Sector: Success, Failure and Ethical Behavior / John M. Mulvey -- Rhetoric and Rigor in Macroeconomic Models: Populist and Orthodox Swings in Latin America / Paul D. McNelis -- Ethical and Modeling Considerations in Correcting the Results of the 1990 Decennial Census / Stephen E. Fienberg -- The Role of Models in Managerial Decision Making - Never Say the Model Says / Vincent P. Barabba -- From Model Building to Risk Management: Evolving Standards of Professional Responsibility / N. Phillip Ross and Suzanne Harris -- On Model Building / John D.C. Little -- Morality and Models / Richard O. Mason -- One Sided Practice - Can We Do Better? / Jonathan Rosenhead
Analysis Decision making Mathematical models
Notes Papers presented at the Ethics in Modeling Workshop held at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) on October 12-14, 1989
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Subject Mathematical models -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Congresses.
Mathematical models -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Social sciences -- Mathematical models -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Congresses.
Social sciences -- Mathematical models -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Models, Theoretical.
Social Sciences.
Decision Making.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
Author Wallace, William A.
Ethics in Modeling Workshop (1989 : Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
LC no. 93048266
ISBN 0080419305 (hard)