Health and education of children in regions of Russia: from clustering to imitating simulation

In the article the authors reveal the stages of construction of the imitative model «Education and health of children in the Russian regions»: selection of target and controlling factors; mathematical expression of their relationship; clustering of regions; description of factors in terms of system dynamics - building a model in AnyLogic; conducting experiments on the clusters data. The final model covers 2 target (the average score of the Unified State Examination in the Russian language among the children belonging to I-II health groups), and 6 controlling factors. The Russian statistics served as empirical material for the study.