synthACS: Spatial Microsimulation Modeling with Synthetic American Community Survey Data

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Title

synthACS: Spatial Microsimulation Modeling with Synthetic American Community Survey Data

Subject

R, SMSM, ACS, spatial microsimulation modeling, simulation, synthetic data,
simulated annealing

Description

synthACS is an R package that provides flexible tools for building synthetic microdatasets based on American Community Survey (ACS) base tables, allows data-extensibility
and enables to conduct spatial microsimulation modeling (SMSM) via simulated annealing. To our knowledge, it is the first R package to provide broadly applicable tools for
SMSM with ACS data as well as the first SMSM implementation that uses unequal probability sampling in the simulated annealing algorithm. In this paper, we contextualize
these developments within the SMSM literature, provide a hands-on user-guide to package synthACS, present a case study of SMSM related to population dynamics, and note
areas for future research

Creator

Alex Whitworth

Source

https://www.jstatsoft.org/article/view/v104i07

Date

October 2022

Contributor

Fajar bagus W

Format

PDF

Language

English

Type

Text

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Citation

Alex Whitworth, “synthACS: Spatial Microsimulation Modeling with Synthetic American Community Survey Data,” Repository Horizon University Indonesia, accessed April 4, 2025, https://repository.horizon.ac.id/items/show/8277.