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Table 2 Model parameters and their range of values that were explored in Phase-II of simulation experiments

From: A scheme to analyze agent-based social simulations using exploratory data mining techniques

Parameter

Values explored

Description

love-radar

{1, 2, 3}

Represents the social distance with respect to an agent’s ego network through which potential partners are sought

new-link-chance

{0.25, 0.5, 0.75}

The probability for an agent to form a new link at each time step (month)

sd-education-pref

{1, 2, 3}

“Standard deviation of the normal distribution governing the agents’ preference for difference in education level (mean is always 0).”—Meyer et al.

mean-dating

{1, 2, 3}

“Mean and standard deviation (in years) of the normal distribution governing the duration of the agents’ dating period.”—Meyer et al.

sd-dating

{1, 2, 3}

  1. The number of agents was kept fixed at 3000