413047-Underground-Commercial-Sex-Economy

Solution Robustness
In the course of the analysis, certain parameters are chosen. These include the following slack margins:
Parameter
Value
0.20
0.01
0.01
0.20
It is natural to inquire as to the extent that these parameter settings influence the solution vector. The
table below shows how solution quality changes as and are decreased.
, E
0.01 18.83%
0.05 15.35%
0.10 11.64%
0.15 8.54%
0.20 5.76%
0.25 3.57%
In the above tables, we see a clear trade-off in the slack margins for the sex proxy and other proxy ratios,
and the quality of the solution. Recall that deviations from the Conservation Law are necessarily due to
failures in Assumption (A1) and/or (A2). If we believe that a 6 percent deviation in the law to be credible
(in terms of the extent to which A1/A2 are, in practice, violated), then we must be prepared to accept that
our proxy ratios for UCSE and “other” needed to be adjusted by