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“Model”


“Model” and “modeling” are the most abused, distorted, misleading, selfserving terms in the contemporary scientific dictionary. Taking a hard look at this very soft and messy business is most commendable.

—Rudolf Kalman, p. 1292, discussion of What is a statistical model? by Peter McCullagh


Author AndiPosted on 10 June 201122 November 2020Categories UncategorisedTags Philosophy, Quotations

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