Models

Announcements

• Class will end early this day as I have an "emergency" dental appointment at 1pm

• I will use the computer in this class. Please try to get UCINET and SPSS installed before class

Topic

How to build and use models and how to properly use and interpret simulations. Using ChatGPT to construct simulations without coding.

Readings

• Romney, A. K., Weller, S. C., & Batchelder, W. H. (1986). Culture as consensus: A theory of culture and informant accuracy. American Anthropologist, 88(2), 313-338. [^pdf] (focus on the model for competence, rather than the Bayesian estimation of true answers)

• Gilbert, N. Agent-based models [pdf]

• March, J. G. (1991). Exploration and exploitation in organizational learning. Organization Science, 2(1), 71-87. [pdf]  [read carefully, not an easy article. focus on the simulation, pps. 74-81] Cited > 34,000 times.

  • • for fun, look at this article on Kodak [html]. It's relevant to the exploration/exploitation theme

Handouts

• Simulations

• Lotka-Volterra equations (skim)

• Bayes rule (you should probably Google it as well). The reason for including it here is because it introduces the concept of a baseline expectation. It is also used in the Romney paper

• The beer game

Data

• facs.xlsx

• romney four respondents.xlsx