Virginia Tech researchers create synthetic US population
Posted December 10th, 2008 by Tara Murray in Health, Research Methods and Ethics, US DemographyResearchers at Virginia Tech have created a synthetic US population based on Census data, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education’s Wired Campus.
The model runs on a supercomputer and assigns demographic characteristics to fake individuals based on real data, as reported in IEEE Spectrum. The model could be used to study any number of social science problems, and researchers are currently using it to study flu transmission.
For more, included selected publications, see the EpiSims project web page.
