Model Thinking - Michigan University coursea

Introduction: Why Model? (Section 1)

• Completed Why Model? (8:53)
• Completed Intelligent Citizens of the World (11:31)
• Completed Thinking More Clearly (10:50)
• Completed Using and Understanding Data (10:14)
• Completed Using Models to Decide, Strategize, and Design (15:26

  Segregation and Peer Effects (Section 2)

  • Completed Sorting and Peer Effects Introduction (5:11)
  • Completed Schelling's Segregation Model (11:30)
  • Completed Measuring Segregation (11:30)
  • Completed Peer Effects (6:58)
  • Completed The Standing Ovation Model (18:05)
  • Completed The Identification Problem (10:18)

  Aggregation (Section 3)

  • Completed Aggregation (10:15)
  • Completed Central Limit Theorem (18:52)
  • Completed Six Sigma (5:11)
  • Completed Game of Life (14:36)
  • Completed Cellular Automata (18:07)
  • Completed Preference Aggregation (12:19)

  
  

  Decision Models (Section 4)

  
  

  • Completed Introduction to Decision Making (5:37)
  • Completed Multi-Criterion Decision Making (8:18)
  • Completed Spatial Choice Models (11:08)
  • Completed Probability: The Basics (10:06)
  • Completed Decision Trees (14:38)
  • Completed Value of Information (8:41)

  Thinking Electrons: Modeling People (Section 5)

  • Completed Thinking Electrons: Modeling People (6:29)
  • Completed Rational Actor Models (16:09)
  • Completed Behavioral Models (12:49)
  • Completed Rule Based Models (12:30)
  • Completed When Does Behavior Matter? (12:40)

  Categorical and Linear Models (Section 6)

  • Completed Introduction to Linear Models (4:27)
  • Completed Categorical Models (15:13)
  • Completed Linear Models (8:10)
  • Completed Fitting Lines to Data (11:48)
  • Completed Reading Regression Output (11:44)
  • Completed From Linear to Nonlinear (6:11)
  • Completed The Big Coefficient vs The New Reality (11:26)

  Tipping Points (Section 7)

  • Completed Tipping Points (5:58)
  • Completed Percolation Models (11:48)
  • Completed Contagion Models 1: Diffusion (7:24)
  • Completed Contagion Models 2: SIS Model (9:12)
  • Completed Classifying Tipping Points (8:26
  • Completed Measuring Tips (13:39)

  Economic Growth (Section 8)

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  • Completed Introduction To Growth (6:43)
  • Completed Exponential Growth (10:53)
  • Completed Basic Growth Model (13:59)
  • Completed Solow Growth Model (11:41)
  • Completed WIll China Continue to Grow? (11:55)
  • Completed Why Do Some Countries Not Grow? (11:30)

  Diversity and Innovation (Section 9)

  • Completed Problem Solving and Innovation (5:06)
  • Completed Perspectives and Innovation (17:22)
  • Completed Heuristics (9:29)
  • Completed Teams and Problem Solving (11:05)
  • Completed Recombination (11:02)

  Markov Processes (Section 10)

  • Completed Markov Models (4:26)
  • Completed A Simple Markov Model (11:27)
  • Completed Markov Model of Democratization (8:21)
  • Completed Exapting the Markov Model (10:11)

  Lyapunov Functions (Section 11)

  • Completed Lyapunov Functions (9:13)
  • Completed The Organization of Cities (12:14)
  • Completed Exchange Economies and Externalities (9:18)
  • Completed Time to Convergence and Optimality (8:04)
  • Completed Lyapunov: Fun and Deep (8:40)
  • Completed Lyapunov or Markov (7:24)

  Coordination and Culture (Section 12)

  • Completed Coordination and Culture (3:37)
  • Completed What Is Culture And Why Do We Care? (15:43)
  • Completed Pure Coordination Game (13:48)
  • Completed Emergence of Culture (11:01)
  • Completed Coordination and Consistency (17:03)

  Path Dependence (Section 13)

  • Completed Path Dependence (7:23)
  • Completed Urn Models (16:26)
  • Completed Mathematics on Urn Models (14:46)
  • Completed Path Dependence and Chaos (11:08)
  • Completed Path Dependence and Increasing Returns (12:31)
  • Completed Path Dependent or Tipping Point (9:52)

  Networks (Section 14)

  • Completed Networks (7:04)
  • Completed The Structure of Networks (19:30)
  • Completed Network Function (13:10)

  Randomness and Random Walks (Section 15

  • Completed Randomness and Random Walk Models (3:05)
  • Completed Sources of Randomness (5:15)
  • Completed Skill and Luck (8:28)
  • Completed Random Walks (12:29)
  • Completed Random Walks and Wall Street (7:51)
  • Completed FInite Memory Random Walks (8:18)

  Colonel Blotto (Section 16)

  • Completed Colonel Blotto Game (1:53)
  • Completed Blotto: No Best Strategy (7:27)
  • Completed Applications of Colonel Blotto (7:08)
  • Completed Blotto: Troop Advantages (6:27)
  • Completed Blotto and Competition (10:41)

  Prisoners' Dilemma and Collective Action (Section 17)

  • Completed Intro: The Prisoners' Dilemma and Collective Action (3:44)
  • Completed The Prisoners' Dilemma Game (13:45)
  • Completed Seven Ways To Cooperation (15:20)
  • Completed Collective Action and Common Pool Resource Problems (7:23)
  • Completed No Panacea (6:03)

  Mechanism Design (Section 18)

  • Completed Mechanism Design (4:00)
  • Completed Hidden Action and Hidden Information (9:53)
  • Completed Auctions (19:59)
  • Public Projects (12:21)

  Learning Models: Replicator Dynamics (Section 19)

  • Replicator Dynamics (4:37)
  • The Replicator Equation (13:29)
  • Fisher's Theorem (11:57)
  • Variation or Six Sigma (5:39)

  Prediction and the Many Model Thinker (Section 20)

  • Prediction (2:25)
  • Linear Models (5:02)
  • Diversity Prediction Theorem (11:54)
  • The Many Model Thinker (7:11)