macrosimulation

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macrosimulation (plural macrosimulations)

(mathematics, computing) simulation of a system as a whole, without simulating the behaviour of its individual components
- 2015 July 9, “Effects of Health-Related Food Taxes and Subsidies on Mortality from Diet-Related Disease in New Zealand: An Econometric-Epidemiologic Modelling Study”, in PLOS ONE‎^[1], →DOI:
  The macrosimulation model employed has been used previously to undertake similar analyses for the UK [26 ,37 –39 ], Ireland [40 ], France [41 ] and Canada [42 ], and the relative risks to parameterise changes in nutritional risk factors and mortality as a result of changes in diet were sourced from high quality meta-analyses [29 –36 ].