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OPERATIONS RESEARCH AND THE PUBLIC SECTOR
Edited by S.M. Pollock, M.H. Rothkopf and A. Barnett

CHAPTER 3
Models Fail
A. Barnett

1. Some preliminaries*  

2. The deterrent effect of capital punishment

3. Testimonials to model validity

4. Sensitivity analyses

5. Tests of structural validity

6. A tale of two more models

7. A definition of sorts

8. Final remarks

References

* The first two pages of the chapters are available as PDF file.

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