Edmund Chattoe-Brown
AffiliationsSchool of Media, Communication and Sociology, University of Leicester, UK
Professional homepagehttps://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/sociology/people/echattoebrown
ORCID more infohttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-8232-6896
GitHub more infoNo associated GitHub account.
I have been involved in agent-based modelling since the early nineties with a consistent attention to methdological improvement, institutional development and empirical issues. My mission is that ABM should be a routinely accepted research method (with a robust methodology) across the social sciences. To this end I have built diverse models and participated in research projects across economics, law, medicine, psychology, anthropology and sociology. I took a DPhil in economics on adaptive firm behaviour and then was involved in two research projects on money management and farmer decision making. Since 2006 I have worked at the Department of Sociology (now the School of Media, Communication and Sociology) at the University of Leicester. I was involved in the founding of JASSS and (more recently RofASSS https://rofasss.org) and have regularly served on the review panels for international conferences in the ABM community.
Research Interests
Decision making, research design and research methods, social networks, innovation diffusion, secondhand markets.
User Guide and Templates for RAT-RS (a reporting standard for improving the documentation of data use in agent-based modelling)
Peer-Olaf Siebers Sebastian Achter Melania Borit Edmund Chattoe-Brown | Published Saturday, March 12, 2022The Rigor and Transparency Reporting Standard (RAT-RS) is a tool to improve the documentation of data use in Agent-Based Modelling. Following the development of reporting standards for models themselves, attention to empirical models has now reached a stage where these standards need to take equally effective account of data use (which until now has tended to be an afterthought to model description). It is particularly important that a standard should allow the reporting of the different uses to which data may be put (specification, calibration and validation), but also that it should be compatible with the integration of different kinds of data (for example statistical, qualitative, ethnographic and experimental) sometimes known as mixed methods research.
For the full details on the RAT-RS, please refer to the related publication “RAT-RS: A Reporting Standard for Improving the Documentation of Data Use in Agent-Based Modelling” (http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13645579.2022.2049511).
Here we provide supplementary material for this article, consisting of a RAT-RS user guide and RAT-RS templates.
Under development.