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  • Computational Social Science
  • Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation

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  • Synthetic population generation is crucial for agent-based modeling in socio-economic research.
  • Iterative proportional fitting (IPF) is a common but potentially suboptimal method for this task.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To introduce a novel copula-based method for generating synthetic populations.
  • To evaluate the performance of the proposed method against IPF in preserving data dependencies.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized the copula concept to develop an alternative approach to synthetic population generation.
  • Computed dependency characteristic measures to compare the proposed method with IPF.

Main Results:

  • The proposed copula-based method demonstrated superior performance in preserving the dependence structure of reference joint distributions compared to IPF.
  • Outperformance was observed across most tested scenarios.

Conclusions:

  • The copula-based method offers a more robust approach for synthetic population generation, particularly when maintaining data relationships is critical.
  • This advancement can improve the accuracy and reliability of agent-based models in transportation planning and other fields.