Model Development Topics

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This topic contains links to model development topics which have not yet been incorporated into a comprehensive hierarchy of documentation. The list is organized alphabetically.

• Authored Model Documentation: The autonomous authored component of model documentation
• Built-in Attributes: Entity attributes like time and age created by the compiler
• Censor Event Time: How to activate and use the censor_event_time optimization option
• Create Import Set: The create_import_set utility which creates a parameter set with output from an upstream model for use in a downstream model
• Derived Tables: Derived tables
• Entity Attributes in C++: Resolving C++ errors in statements using entity attributes
• Entity Function Hooks: Entity function hooks
• Entity Member Packing: How to pack entity members to reduce memory use
• Entity Tables: Entity tables
• Enumerations: Enumerations
• Events: All about events (under construction)
• Event Trace: Probe a model run at the micro level
• External Names: How to specify the external names of dimensions, expressions, and enumerators
• Generated Model Documentation: The Symbol Reference component of model documentation
• Groups: Parameter, table, and attribute groups
• Illustrative Model Align1: An experimental model which manipulates the event queue to align with external counts
• Lifecycle Attributes: Built-in entity attributes to probe events
• Local Random Streams: Random number generator streams for individual entities
• Memory Use: A compendium of techniques to economize memory in time-based models
• Microdata Output: Allows a model to output records containing entity attributes
• Model Code: How model code is organized into modules, syntactic islands, and C++
• Model Documentation: Home topic on model documentation
• Model Languages: The human languages supported by a model
• Model Localization: Translation of model messages
• Model Metrics Report: Description and illustration of the Model Metrics report produced by the OpenM++ compiler
• Model Resource Use: Activating and interpreting information about model resource use
• Model Symbols: Symbols in model code and in the user interface
• OpenM++ Compiler: OpenM++ compiler arguments and options
• Parameter and Table Display and Content: Control parameter and table presence and display
• Population Size and Scaling: How a model specifies population size and population scaling
• Screened Tables: Customized Statistical Disclosure Control for entity tables
• Symbol Labels and Notes: Human-language labels and notes for model symbols
• Tables: Output tables
• Test Models: The test_models utility to build, run, and compare model results
• Time-like and Event-like Attributes: Definition of time-like and event-like attributes, and restrictions on use
• Use Modules: The use statement and supplied library of use framework modules
• Using dbcopy: How to use dbcopy for model inputs and outputs
• Weighted Tabulation: Weighted tabulation

Orphaned topics:

• File-based Parameter Values: Representing parameter values in files