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Created for the current study, the Definitional Test of Complex Systems (DTCS) is our attempt at an exhaustive tool for determining the extent to which a complex system’s definition fits a topic. The DTCS is not, however, a standardized instrument. As such, we have not normed or validated it. Instead, it is a conceptual tool meant to move scholars toward empirically-driven, synthetic definitions of complex systems.
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Castellani, B., Rajaram, R., Buckwalter, J., Ball, M., Hafferty, F. (2015). Definitional Test of Complex Systems. In: Place and Health as Complex Systems. SpringerBriefs in Public Health. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09734-3_2
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