The Method of Response Function in Psychology & Sociology

Social (psychological and sociological) systems present considerable difficulties for modellers because of their complexity, multidimensionality, uncertainty, irreducibility, etc. This book proposes the method of response function (MRF) for the construction of purposeful, credible, integrated models of social systems from data and prior knowledge or information, overcoming some of the difficulties. A semi-empirical, or grey-box, MRF model may be regarded as a trade-off between a knowledge-b...