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Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-xv
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  2. Systems and Systems Analysis Methods and Applications

    1. Systems and Systems Analysis Methods and Applications
      Ralph L. Levine, Hiram E. Fitzgerald
      Pages 1-16

  3. Technical and Methodological Aspects of Systems Analysis

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 17-17
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    2. The Study of Dynamic Systems Using Structural Equations Analysis
      Lois E. Tetrick
      Pages 19-41
    3. Sensitivity of Parameters and Loop Structures
      Ralph L. Levine, Weldon Lodwick
      Pages 43-86
    4. Psychological Scaling and Filtering of Errors in Empirical Systems
      Ralph L. Levine, Weldon Lodwick
      Pages 87-117
    5. Parameter Estimation and Assessing the Fit of Dynamic Models
      Ralph L. Levine, Weldon Lodwick
      Pages 119-150

  4. Applications of Systems Approaches

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 151-151
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    2. Applications of Living Systems Theory
      James Grier Miller, Jessie L. Miller
      Pages 153-180
    3. Complex Organizations and Living Systems Theory
      Gordon C. Ruscoe
      Pages 181-194
    4. General Systems in Psychiatric Disorder
      Irwin M. Greenberg
      Pages 195-213
    5. A Systems Approach to Understanding and Enhancing Grassroots Organizations
      Paul Florin, David Chavis, Abraham Wandersman, Richard Rich
      Pages 215-243
    6. A Multivariate Causal Analysis of Teenage Child Rearing
      Hiram E. Fitzgerald, Mark W. Roosa
      Pages 245-262
    7. A Theory of Service Delivery and Its Application to the Dropout Phenomenon
      Gilbert Levin, Edward B. Roberts
      Pages 263-301
    8. Educational Policy Analysis
      Karl H. Clauset Jr., Alan K. Gaynor
      Pages 303-325
    9. A Cognitive Control System
      William T. Powers
      Pages 327-340
    10. Dynamics of Attitude Change
      Stan A. Kaplowitz, Edward L. Fink
      Pages 341-369
    11. Toward Building Psychoanalytically Based Mathematical Models of Psychotherapeutic Paradigms
      Robert Langs
      Pages 371-393
  5. Back Matter
    Pages 395-404
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About this book

Introduction

Drawing on sources from a wide range of disciplines, this first volume of a two volume tutorial on systems theory focuses on non-linear dynamical techniques for analysis of feedback processes, information flow, decision making, control theory, and modeling of human behavioral systems.

Keywords

Cybernetics Flow dynamics education human behavior information modeling organization service systems theory

Editors and affiliations

  • Ralph L. Levine
    • 1
  • Hiram E. Fitzgerald
    • 1
  1. 1.Michigan State UniversityEast LansingUSA

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